Vote by Mail?….How about Vote By Phone?

Trump has been against mail-in-votinmg….

The Supreme’s have a case on it….

This is soooo passe’…..

A city in Alaska is up for voting by phone….

And remote voting actually is NOT new….

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The largest city in Alaska is about to undertake an experiment that feels both inevitable and impossibly futuristic in an era of pervasive mistrust toward elections: allowing all voters to cast ballots from their smartphones.

Anchorage, home to about 240,000 registered voters, is starting small. Mail and in-person voting will still exist, but voters will also be able to open a link on their phones to cast a ballot in municipal races in April, when six city assembly seats and two school board seats are up for election. The change will not apply to higher-profile races later in the year for state legislature, governor and federal offices.

But even at the local level, the trial run of phone voting — one of the first of its scale in the nation — could offer a blueprint for expanded use in future elections beyond Alaska.

The cautious technological step forward is designed to help offset Alaska’s logistical challenges: harsh weather, long drives to vote in rural areas, a transient population and, for Anchorage itself, a large military base nearby. Lots of ballots never get delivered, and plenty more arrive too late to be counted. Local election officials hope that the phone experiment will make it easier to vote, while also keeping their elections secure…..

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Internet voting has also long been utilized for military and overseas voters in many places across the country. Josh Zygielbaum, the clerk in Adams County, Colo., has used a version of internet voting for its military and overseas voters since about 2010. He is eagerly watching the Anchorage experiment.

“Remote voting has been done since the Civil War,” Mr. Zygielbaum said, referring to the various ways throughout history that military members have been able to vote. “This is just leveraging technology that already exists,” he added, saying that “I think that it could be leveraged successfully to expand voting and alter the way that Americans vote.”

But he cautioned: “I think there’s still a lot of work that has to be done. The current political environment, there’s a lot of mistrust in elections, and so it may be an uphill battle to really get this in place.”….

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