Internet Voting – Do We Need It?
Mindy Moretti is the editor at Electionline.org, the nation’s only nonpartisan, non-advocacy clearinghouse for election reform news and information. In her current weekly update, called “The Election That Was”, she takes a state-by-state look at the 2016 General Election. She wrote, “The 2016 election cycle seemed to drag on forever and even today [November 17] […]
IBM Has Ideas for President Elect
Ginni Rometty,Chairman, President and CEO, at IBM Corporation sent an open letter to President-Elect Trump outlining a series of initiatives she believes would be helpful to the new administration and consistent with stated goals. As the leader of the nation’s largest technology employer, she has some points of view which should be listened to. The […]
Internet Voting – Advantages and Challenges
This is the second of a series of eight video clips from my interview about Internet voting at Thomson Reuters in New York City in August 2016 (watch all eight here). Many Americans are asking why we can’t vote on the Internet. It is a very logical question. Our registration and voting system has numerous problems. During the November 8 […]
What the Next President Should Do: Healthcare Common Sense
The 2016 election is over, and a top priority for the new administration and Congress is healthcare. The candidates discussed little substance about healthcare during the campaigns, despite the fact it is approaching 20% of our economy and touches every American. You could say the problems in healthcare have been caused by action by one […]
Early Results on Voter Participation
Approximately 125 million votes have been counted so far. In 2012, 129 million votes were counted. Since 2012, the population grew 11 million. Registered voters skyrocketed from 153 million in 2012 to 200 million in 2016. Voter participation as a % of registered voters declined (again). It already ranked 31 out of 34 developed countries. In 2012, 84% of […]