There's not a single thing in what you've written that requires you to vote from home, instead of at a polling place with election observers.

I will also tell you that from 3 decades of watching this stuff I believe that you've put yourself at the mercy of the propaganda people. They are the ones who retain, manipulate, and present the information that you are election-night-cramming on. Off the top of my head I can think of a dozen examples of candidate-selection-altering events that, when I go back later to see what history has had to say, are entirely missed, glossed over, or are otherwise mischaracterized.

In summation (not to the parent at this point) - get yourself to a town hall meeting or two sometime, and get off your lazy butt and walk to the post office or a polling place.

Where's the money to be made in that? Furthermore, how can I pump some hype up about bitcoins with pedestrian paper?

But this isn't about "no votes". Low turnout needs to be addressed while repeating the mantra "correlation is not causation". Until the true root cause(s) is/are understood, just doing something isn't a good approach (and will likely be a "something" that slimeball politicians will use to abuse voters futher).

This is interesting to me. Have you ever looked at the Swiss system of voting?

You're going to do your vote research AT THE TIME OF VOTING? Are you nuts? Politicians lie pretty much ... constantly. Are you really going to trust the single site presented to you by whoever runs the voting system as an unbiased source of information?

Your argument that "it simply takes too much time to do the research" reads to me as an admission of being uninformed. Your statements preceding that set off every alarm in my system for propaganda abuse.

Do your own research. If you care about an issue watch your local, state, and national politicians over time and keep track of what they DO, not just what they SAY.

The counter-argument goes that if the voter can pull out their generated ID tag to verify their vote after the fact, a standard-issue "thug" (representing any malicious party) can also use that ID to verify that the votes went to their preferred candidates. So it's not really anonymous at all.

By the way, look further down the page for this post - http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... App-based voting will very likely lead to MORE voter suppression, not less.

Way to cherry pick your statements while ignoring context. Would you like to debate my use of the word "is" next?

Amen.

It's not worth going out of our way to make voting MORE accessible than it already is. There are multiple polling places in every city of any size across the nation. People who are so uninterested in the process that they can't either go to their local poll or drop an absentee ballot in the mail are VERY likely to have a misinformed, useless opinion.

There are any number of areas regarding voting that I'd rather see time spent on instead of being able to claim "There's an app for that".

That swatting is a thing. How can it be that a single, anonymous phone call is all it takes to deploy a militarized police team to your front door? It blows my mind. That it keeps happening over and over ... ugh.

In my opinion, it really isn't at all positive or a success. I commented earlier about the vast cultural differences between German (& Danish & Scandinavian) unions and American unions; the Hostess story is a good example. Compare what happened with Hostess to this explanation (that does a much better job than I would do): http://www.remappingdebate.org... Given the political situation in the US, I think that to see the American system shift the US unions need to buy the companies that they staff.

Ford, Chrysler and GM's management obviously thought (and by most indications, still think) that they've got the US Government wrapped around their little finger. Why improve quality or reduce unneeded costs when you don't believe that lack of competitive offerings will ever truly be the end of you? Their testimony in Congress at the time of this article was ... impressive. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/...

To play Devil's Advocate (just a little bit) - there are cultural differences (sometimes huge) between the USA and Germany, and a HUGE cultural difference between their respective labor unions. There may be more to a German car being built well than whether or not a Union was involved.

Surprisingly enough, I've got those failure calculations (estimated using prior internal failures rates) included in my own measurements. The SLA thing is where things really turned south - for the expense cloud providers who would guarantee uptime the way you describe AND reimburse for outages outside of the SLA, I could have doubled my staff size.