80% of US teens would vote by text (vs 61% of US adults)

By on April 22, 2008 in Services

Link: U.S. Cell Phone Users Open to Texting Their Vote for President

A survey by Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) suggests that many teens and their parents across the U.S. would rather vote by text message on their cell phones in the next election rather than go to the polls.

BYE-BYE POLLS

More than six in ten (61%a) of respondents of legal voting age, age 18 and older, would be open to voting by text.

Eight in ten (80%) teens, ages 13-17, say that if they were allowed to vote in this year’s Presidential election, they’d do it by text message instead of going to the polls.

Nice one Samsung. There are obvious issues with authentication but, assuming you could sort that (and there are many movements afoot to do so), you never know.

Or actually, how about dumping voting altogether and get Simon Cowell to sort it out for us?

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  • http://intomobile.com Stefan Constantinescu

    i don’t see how hard it would be. the government would basically have to mail out voter registration cards with one of those lottery type scratch off do-hickeys. you send an SMS to a government computer and it asks for your code to authenticate, you rub that sucker out, send them an SMS back, they give you a conformation and bada-bing you vote for the guy with the nice haircut and straight teeth.

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