Road to 100% Voter Turnout

In today’s day and age, you can do almost anything with your phone.  As everything continues to move towards being accessible on the go, it would be natural that things such as voting also follow that trend.  Thus I think that an app like Vote USA would be a great idea not only because it makes voting more convenient, but it will lead to more people voting.  The statistics that were presented in class during the presentation about our generations voting numbers are astounding, and an app like Voting USA would definitely improve the voter turnout in our age group.  The app would also allow for people to vote more easily.  Today, you must go to your designated voting place in order to vote, and sometimes, it is just too much of an inconvenience and thus causes people to not cast their votes.  Besides this, out-of-state students for example, would most likely not be able to take the time to travel home to cast their vote, and casting an absentee ballot would be too much of a hassle as well.  An app like this then would take care of those problems.  Not only would you be able to vote from anywhere in the world, but the government would be saving money by implementing a system such as Vote USA.  Besides making it easier to vote, the system would allow almost instantaneous and live election votes as the votes were cast from the mobile device.  This would add a more exciting edge to voting which would likely increase voter turnout further.  While this system offers lots of ideas to make voting easier, there are some security concerns associated with a system that allows for mobile casting of votes.  The problem of making sure that the person casting the ballot is who they say they are is one of the largest.  This I think however, can be easily fixed with the use of a finger print scanner in the device which is used to cast the ballot.  Further, I could envision a retina scanner of sorts on phones in the near future that could also be used to verify the identity of the person using the app.  In addition to this problem however, the problem of hacking also becomes an issue.  This however is already a problem with any type of mobile system, and the number of incidents in which something actually gets hacked is relatively small.  Thus I don’t foresee much in the way of dangers associated from the hacking of this service and especially if the government implements a high level of security for the system.  Overall, I think what Vote USA would be able to accomplish if it existed would be of much importance for the country as a whole.