> King County voters will be able to use their name and birthdate to log in to a Web portal through the Internet browser on their phones, says Bryan Finney, the CEO of Democracy Live, the Seattle-based voting company providing the technology.
Oh, really?
> Once voters have completed their ballots, they must verify their submissions and then submit a signature on the touch screen of their device.
Huh?
> Finney says election officials in Washington are adept at signature verification because the state votes entirely by mail. ...
Finney must have never had to sign on a phone screen with a finger while driving before.
All of this digital theater of the absurd in a desperate attempt to engage people in the political process:
> The board of supervisors election in the King Conservation District, for example, in past years has drawn less than 1% of the eligible population to the ballot box.
People don't vote because they don't care. Not because they can't make it to the poling place. They don't care because they don't see anything at stake.
There's no app for that.
Oh, really?
> Once voters have completed their ballots, they must verify their submissions and then submit a signature on the touch screen of their device.
Huh?
> Finney says election officials in Washington are adept at signature verification because the state votes entirely by mail. ...
Finney must have never had to sign on a phone screen with a finger while driving before.
All of this digital theater of the absurd in a desperate attempt to engage people in the political process:
> The board of supervisors election in the King Conservation District, for example, in past years has drawn less than 1% of the eligible population to the ballot box.
People don't vote because they don't care. Not because they can't make it to the poling place. They don't care because they don't see anything at stake.
There's no app for that.