The co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology tells Bill Whitaker social media companies are profiting off Americans’ online anger.
Category: Election
Encouraging Voting-IMPACT Elections
Uber will offer a one-time $10 discount to users who are heading to their polling place on Election Day next month, the company announced Wednesday.
The ride-hailing service said in a news release that it has expanded its discount offerings for the midterm elections. Uber previously announced it partnered with two voting groups to offer discounted rides on Election Day, but now intends to offer a single $10 discount through the app itself.
The real key to intelligence is being able to maintain opposing views on an issue and still function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald On First-Rate Intelligence – Personal Growth – Medium “Thetest of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability…
WHEN pollsters ask Americans which party they plan to vote for in the elections for the House of Representatives this November, those preferring the Democrats lead those preferring the Republicans by around seven percentage points. But this does not mean the Democrats are a shoo-in to win the House. The Economist’s statistical model of the race for control of the House of Representatives—which uses this sort of “generic ballot” polling, along with other data—currently says that, although the likelihood of a Democratic majority in the popular vote is a remarkable 99.9%.
Impact Forum V: Elections
Our 5th Impact Forum was held on September 14, 2016 at Civic Hall, NYC’s foremost center for civic technology & innovation, on the topic of Elections. Election Systems are best understood by the rules and incentives constructed around them. Evaluating the United States’ and New York’s Electoral Systems reveals a series of important policy choices that will shape what our electorate will look like in the coming decades. Impact Elections will dig into key question such as: How does money predict elections? How will technology shape voting of the future? Does the current voting system fundamentally fail certain segments of our country’s population? What can voting systems from other nations tell us about options for change?
Impact Experts composing the panel at Elections included: Ann Ravel (Federal Elections Commissioner), Gustavo Rivera (New York State Senator), James Bopp (Plaintiff’s Attorney for Citizens United v. FEC), Richard Briffault (Professor, Columbia Law School), the legal advisor to Stephen Colbert’s Presidential Campaign, the President of the NYC Campaign Finance Board, and more.
The Influence of Redistricting – The New Yorker
Brennan Center Proposal to Modernize Voting
Christopher Malone: The Two-Party System in America
New York Campaign Finance Data
New York State Election Results
The Value of Decentralized Voting Systems?
Hard to hack, confusing designs, local ownership and errors.
Déjà vu all over again in the Sunshine State