Voter integrity in blue states already cannot be trusted, so the very idea that Swalwell would suggest that people should be able to vote by phone is inconceivably moronic. Even worse, Swalwell is trying to sell this boondoggle as some revolutionary idea.
Swalwell, not surprisingly, chose to announce that he will be running for Governor on The Late Show. He followed that up by revealing his vote-by-phone fiasco, on another media “performance” claiming he wants to make this change to “max out democracy.”
“I want us to be able to vote by phone. I think every California… by phone, by phone, yeah, if we can do our taxes, do our, you know, our, make our health care appointments, you know, make, essentially, your, do your banking online, you should be able to vote by phone. Make it safe, make it secure. But it’s actually already happening all over the United States.
I want us to be a blue state that doesn’t do just a little bit better than, like, Georgia or Alabama when it comes to like voting access. I want us to max out democracy.
Also, as it relates to democracy, if you wait in line for 30 minutes or more, if you do want to vote in person, I think you should fine every county for every minute that a person has to wait longer.