Voting is too hard. That’s why so few people do it.
Our government is broken because it's too polarized.
It’s too polarized because too few people vote.
Too few people vote because our election system makes voting too inconvenient.
The result?
Extremists dominate our politics. Moderate voices are drowned out. Politicians fear their party’s base—not the general public. Real solutions for real issues like healthcare, guns, and climate go ignored.
Our Elections Don't Represent All Voters
6 out of 10 Americans believe democracy is in crisis. They’re right.
Primary Elections are controlled by a tiny, extreme minority. Four out of every five eligible voters did not participate in the 2022 congressional primaries. The vast majority of voters did not vote at all in primaries, which are more and more critical because of gerrymandered districts where only one party has a real shot of winning in November. Turnout in the 2024 congressional primaries was only 8%.
The reason people don’t vote isn’t that they don’t care, it’s that voting remains too hard. According to a US Census Bureau survey of the 2022 midterm elections, 27% said their reason for not voting was that they were too busy, 13% said that they were sick or had a disability, about 10% said they were away from home and about 10% said they forgot to vote or send in a mail-in ballot.
The only way to fix this? Dramatically increase voter turnout.
Americans can bank from their phones, depositing a check in the middle of running errands. They can get medical help from their phones, connecting with a doctor no matter where they are. We have the technology. It’s time to let Americans vote from their phones too.
Mobile voting is the only scalable solution. It meets voters where they are, bringing the ballot box to the palm of their hands. It makes voting straightforward and secure without long lines, accessibility barriers, or mail delays.
Mobile voting is already a proven option that works for voters around the world.
Over 30 states already offer digital remote voting options to select groups of voters. But hundreds of millions of voters are locked out of our democracy without this option. The mobile voting technology we advocate for would greatly improve security, reliability, and efficiency of these existing systems.
Mobile voting options have been used for nearly 20 years. Countries like Australia, Canada, Estonia, France, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom have used mobile voting for some voters.
Electronic return of ballots is already being used by select voters - such as military, overseas citizens, and voters with disabilities – in 30 states.
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Additional states also permit voters with disabilities to return ballots over internet.
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Jurisdictions have piloted mobile voting since 2018
Since 2018, we’ve launched 21 secure mobile voting pilots across 7 states.
The National Cybersecurity Center audited the majority of these pilots, and in every case, the audits came back clean.
Turnout jumped by more than 200% in King County, WA, after a special district began offering mobile voting options to all voters.
In a post-election survey of mobile voters from a pilot in Denver, 100% of survey respondents said they wanted to use mobile voting in all elections in the future.