Of all Western Democracies, the US is ranked last in terms of free and fair elections (52nd worldwide). On top of the political reasons for that, our election systems (voting machines; registration lists; centralized election management systems; reporting sites) are all vulnerable and easy to hack. Audits on these systems rarely ever occur. In a broken system like this, what does political participation mean? The solutions to these problems are right in front of our eyes, but when those who write the rules come to power through the very system we need to fix, can we ever hope to implement them?

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Chapters

02:25 Our least favorite Gerry

06:30 The annual purge

14:12 The founding fathers would be proud

26:44 The scary part

31:04 Voting machines we use

41:38 Not just voting machines

49:45 Will the internet save us?

54:56 How do we go forward?

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Published 01-11-2018 01:34