Author of the book the revolution of 28 al smith, american progressivism and the coming of the new deal. His Progressive Coalition paved the way for franklin roosevelt. Good evening, everyone. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome you all here to our talk for this evening. On behalf of the History Department here, welcome, to our evenings talk. Were able to hold this talk thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is dr. Robert chiles. Hes a graduate of town send university where he studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012. And the talk that hes going to be giving this evening is the result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i do believe, yes. He has in the course of this particular research, the research for this project, hes received a
Policy i will be monitoring our conversation today by collier and the cofounder vote with the Election Reform Program at the center for justice. So feel free to drop your questions and the chat below. And miller voters than ever were voting early and as we talk about alternatives a lot of people are asking about Going Digital asig well. So i would you even want online voting . Here in Seattle Washington we have a robust mail and Ballot System what that conversation would look like. The appeal is enormous and in theory it has largely been attempted in the country for people is a of the in the polls so convincingly that if we somehow have a robust online Voting System that would drastically increase voter participationld but this country doesnt have really great numbers that would actually show up on election day in the paper so engage. And those in a given election its. And you also need to keep in mind there is a nontrivial amount then effectively use the postal ballot or mail and Ball
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And larryt nbc news norden, the director of the Election Reform Program at the Brennan Center for justice. Just a reminder, if you have questions as we chat, feel free to drop them into the chat below. Voting is on everyones mind at the moment, and with coronavirus, more voters than ever are trying mailin ballots or voting early. Alternatives to our usual voting methods, a lot of people are asking will voting become digital, as well . Thent to kick off conversation by asking, why would we even want online voting . My bias is coming from seattle where we have a robust mailin ballot system, and the process is already quite easy. Im curious what the conversation would look like around, why do we need this kind of technology . I think the appeal is in normas. Is enormous. In theory, it has largely been attempted in this country for military deployed service members. It could be used for people with disabilities who dont have a lot of ease getting to the polls. If we somehow had a robust on
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