Podcast: It’s time to talk about voting technology. No, not that kind of voting.

On November 10, 2020, the Committee on House Administration issued a staff report about the technological feasibility of remote voting in the US House of Representatives.

Marketplace Tech correspondent Amy Scott recently interviewed Beth Simone Noveck, Director of The GovLab, about the opportunities that remote voting presents for Congress to increase the diversity of participation in committee hearings, to support contingency plans in case of future disasters, and to create new opportunities for the public to participate in the lawmaking process. Noveck says that while many US lawmakers remain apprehensive about changing long-standing procedures, Congress should look at how legislatures around the world have adopted modern and safe digital infrastructure that allows lawmakers to convene, deliberate and vote without the need to gather in-person.

Listen to the interview below and read the whole story on Marketplace.org.

This post is part of a series on the Continuity of Legislatures. Find the whole series here.

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