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Bradley Tusk

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

But based on turnout, that's not most of you.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

So let's give people another option.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

So as I mentioned before, and you can probably tell from my accent, I'm from New York, so I'm going to use that as the example for how it works.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

I go on the App Store and I download the New York City Board of Elections app.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

And the first thing they do is say, OK, is Bradley really a registered voter here in New York City?

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

I put in my address, fine.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

Next thing is multifactor authentication.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

So you know how, like, when you forget your Google password, they send you a code and you put it back into the app?

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

Same thing here.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

Then we take a scan of your face, match that up against your government ID, and at this point, we've fully established, OK, Bradley is really Bradley.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

Ballot pops up on my screen, and the ballot itself is simple and easy to use, and I go through it, I take my time, no rush.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

Whenever I'm ready, I hit submit.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

And when I hit submit, three things happen.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

First, my ballot is encrypted.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

Second, it's anonymized.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

Third, I get a tracking code, like if it were a FedEx package, so I can track the progress of my ballot all the way through the process.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

then it goes back to the New York City Board of Elections and they air gap it, which means they take it offline.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

And once my ballot is no longer connected to the internet, then they decrypt it, a paper copy is printed out, that gets mixed in with all of the other ballots.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

I know where my ballot stands because I can see from the tracking code that it was received, tabulated, printed and so on.

TED Talks Daily
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

And the underlying code itself is open source, which means that anyone can audit it,