#electoralintegrity

The group identified three possible solutions to improving electoral integrity from a technological perspective:

Voter Identification and Registration

Vote Casting

Verifying Votes

Initially, our group considered Why Not Try Them All?  We had envisioned a desktop and mobile application that took the voter from voter identification and registration to casting the vote to verifying the vote was counted.  However, the more we discussed the logistical and technical challenges, this did not seem to be feasible.  We felt it was wiser to tackle one solution and then over time add the additional solutions.  

To determine as a group which solution to tackle, we decided to develop a matrix using the methodology described in the asynchronous work as Opinions vs. Objectives.  Our primary objective was to choose the solution that could make the largest impact on electoral integrity.  To determine this, we identified the primary qualities the solution needed to improve electoral integrity.  We then rated them based on what solution was more likely to display those qualities.  We color-coded the ratings to display a heat map.

For the next phase trying to solve world peace, our team chose to utilize the brainstorming method utilized during the IPR to put down some of the ideas we had about the root of the problems in world democracies.  With the broad scope of our initial research, this allowed us to draw from our individual research to present problems we noticed so that we could see where there was alignment across topics.  We utilized Miro software (rebranded this week from Real Time Board) to provide this collaboration so each of us had the opportunity to put down all of our thoughts.  Once all of the thoughts were placed, we met via Zoom to affinitize the results so we could narrow our focus towards a problem we felt had the most impact.  We reviewed our results, noted where some ideas fell into multiple categories, and chose a common thread we believed to be at the crux of each of the committees we reviewed in the analysis phase.  We each included similar problems, so it was seamless to transition to a singular focus based on our posts, voter representation.  We further narrowed our problem to focus on electoral integrity.