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Recent Press

Meet a Philanthropist Who Wants to Fix Voting — and Tackle Hunger (Inside Philanthropy)
The Philanthropist Who Wants to Transform Voting (Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Why Bradley Tusk believes mobile voting is key to the health of our democracy (FastCompany)
Would You Vote From Your Phone? (WIRED)
How Mobile Voting Could Save Democracy (US News and World Report)
What If We Could Vote With Our Phones? (Stay Tuned With Preet, podcast)
Your Phone Could Change Democracy Forever – Here's How! (Forward with Andrew Yang, YouTube)
Tusk Ventures CEO on turning your phone into a voting booth (Fox Business)
National Campaign is pushing for "mobile voting" for all U.S. Elections (CNN)

Blogs + Op-Eds

Resources Index

Fixing Our Politics: The Case for Mobile Voting

A few days ago, I posted a piece defending the underlying technology of mobile voting. Then I realized I had never made the underlying case, except in passing, for why we should be able to vote on our phones. So here it is.

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Mobile Voting Can Save Our Democracy

Unite NY recently conducted a poll surveying attitudes among New Yorkers about different political reforms. Not surprisingly, every reform surveyed was popular, with ranked choice voting polling at a nearly 2-1 favorable margin and open primaries at 3-1.

The 2024 presidential election is over, even as California and a handful of other states finish counting ballots and a statewide recount in Pennsylvania gets underway.

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If we had mobile voting this November…

Despite the heroic efforts of election officials across the country, we’ve seen some problems arise in the last week that impact the ability of voters to safely and securely cast their vote.

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Resources + Research

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Removing Barriers to the Ballot Box: The Case for Mobile Voting

Most of us want to vote from our phones out of convenience, but what about those who need to because of the structural barriers they encounter to voting now? This paper examines how those barriers contribute to persistent turnout gaps for certain voters and builds the case for how mobile voting would help ensure all voters can exercise their most fundamental right to vote.

"In this report, we examine the future of voting and the possibility of conducting secure elections online. Specifically, we explore whether End-to-End Verifiable Internet Voting (E2E-VIV) systems are a viable and responsible alternative to traditional election systems." - U.S. Vote Foundation

The ABA Task Force for American Democracy published a working paper on how mobile voting can help address negative partisanship and fix our broken politics. The Task Force is co-chaired by former Federal Judge J. Michael Luttig and former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Charles Johnson to examine ways to ensure an enduring American democracy.

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2023 Annual Report

2023 was a big year for Mobile Voting and Tusk Philanthropies. We just released our annual report detailing all of our progress.

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Case Studies

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The Denver Mobile Voting Pilot: A Report

This report describes the post-election audit process of the Denver municipal election mobile voting pilots conducted by the National Cybersecurity Center. It provides an overview of how informed military voters, their families, and overseas civilians securely received, marked, and returned their ballots using iOS and Android smartphones from 36 countries.

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The Utah Mobile Voting Case Study: Accessibility and Expanding Voting Options

This report describes the following: an overview of the barriers military and overseas voters face, the successful execution of the mobile voting pilot, and the post-election audit of the Utah County conducted by the National Cybersecurity Center.

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The West Virginia Mobile Voting Case Study: Providing a Convenient and Secure Voting Option for Uniformed Service Members

This report describes the following: an overview of the barriers military and overseas voters face, the successful execution of the mobile voting pilot, and the post-election audit of the West Virginia election conducted by the National Cybersecurity Center.

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Charleston County, South Carolina: Innovations in Election Administration

This report describes the following: the mobile voting pilot conducted in Charleston County, South Carolina. An overview of how informed military voters, their families, and civilians residing overseas received, marked, and returned their ballots. An overview of how mobile voting helped alleviate the administrative burden on election officials and streamline the UOCAVA process.

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