Move fast...and fix democracy?
Episode
49 min
Read time
2 min
AI-Generated Summary
Key Takeaways
- ✓Can mobile voting technology be secure and scalable?
- ✓How does government bureaucracy prevent digital modernization?
- ✓What lessons can America learn from Estonia's digital society?
What It Covers
Bradley Tusk and Jennifer Palka propose mobile voting technology and digital government reforms to increase voter participation and modernize bureaucratic systems across America.
Key Questions Answered
- •Can mobile voting technology be secure and scalable?
- •How does government bureaucracy prevent digital modernization?
- •What lessons can America learn from Estonia's digital society?
Notable Moment
Isaac Kramer describes Charleston County processing over 2000 printed PDF ballot sheets from overseas voters, requiring manual email verification before mobile voting streamlined the entire process.
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