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Rep. Eric Swalwell’s idea to let Californians “vote by phone” is not a modern miracle — it’s a dangerous surrender of our electoral safeguards to the same insecure devices that deliver scam calls and stolen identities. The congressman floated the proposal as part of his freshly launched bid for governor, saying voters should be able to handle ballots as easily as they do banking and scheduling appointments.
Swalwell even bragged that he wants to “max out democracy,” arguing that if we can file taxes or make health appointments online, we should be able to elect leaders by smartphone. That kind of throwaway slogan masks a startling contempt for basic election security and common sense, treating the ballot as just another app feature.
Patriots should be furious, not impressed. Conservatives and independent observers immediately warned that phone voting would hand a golden opportunity to fraudsters, foreign adversaries, and tech-savvy manipulators to rig outcomes without a trace, and social media lit up with ridicule and alarm. This isn’t theory — critics say there are proven vulnerabilities when you move votes onto networks and devices that are routinely compromised.
Swalwell’s pitch comes amid an already dubious track record and attention to his past controversies, yet he seems unconcerned about how much faith Californians should place in his judgment on something as foundational as free and fair elections. He announced his run on a late-night show and then doubled down on the phone idea in interviews, prioritizing buzz over sober policy debate. Voters deserve better than gimmicks from a candidate who treats democracy like a tech demo.
He also proposed fining counties for any voter who waits in line more than 30 minutes, which sounds nice until you realize it’s more political theater than a plan to fix real problems like homelessness, crime, and cost of living. The left’s endless quest to make voting “easier” too often substitutes access for integrity, and Swalwell’s combined package of fines and phone ballots would weaken the very institutions that protect Americans’ votes.
Conservatives must push back hard and fast. This is not an abstract policy debate about convenience — it is a fight over whether elections remain secure, auditable, and trusted by the public. If California becomes the laboratory for turning ballots into pixels on a screen, the rest of the country will be watching as our election safeguards are quietly eroded.
Hardworking Americans who love this country should demand a fuller debate: show us the security protocols, the independent audits, the verifiable paper trails, and then let voters judge whether phone voting is worth the risk. Until those guarantees exist, any politician who cavalierly offers “vote by phone” as a slogan is not modernizing democracy — he is inviting its unraveling.
