Lugh@futurology.todayM to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 1 year agoThe US Democratic Party has begun using AI to phone voters and campaign on their behalf. The company providing the service says they expect to scale fast to thousands of calls a day.www.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down17
arrow-up166arrow-down1external-linkThe US Democratic Party has begun using AI to phone voters and campaign on their behalf. The company providing the service says they expect to scale fast to thousands of calls a day.www.reuters.comLugh@futurology.todayM to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squarecucumber_sandwich@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoFirst past the post voting is a much larger problem. Many votes in the US system actually don’t matter and making voting compulsory does nothing to change that.
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-21 year agoI completely agree. That is why I said “One of” not “the only”. Another big one is the use of the electoral college and that it has not been rebalanced to reflect population changes in decades. Another is gerrymandering. The overarching problem is that, since ww2, the USA has turned their founding documents and institutions into holy relics that cannot be changed.
First past the post voting is a much larger problem. Many votes in the US system actually don’t matter and making voting compulsory does nothing to change that.
I completely agree.
That is why I said “One of” not “the only”.
Another big one is the use of the electoral college and that it has not been rebalanced to reflect population changes in decades.
Another is gerrymandering.
The overarching problem is that, since ww2, the USA has turned their founding documents and institutions into holy relics that cannot be changed.