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The US Democratic Party has begun using AI to phone voters and campaign on their behalf. The company providing the service says they expect to scale fast to thousands of calls a day. (www.reuters.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

First past the post voting is a much larger problem. Many votes in the US system actually don't matter and making voting compulsory does nothing to change that.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I completely agree.

That is why I said "One of" not "the only".

Another big one is the use of the electoral college and that it has not been rebalanced to reflect population changes in decades.

Another is gerrymandering.

The overarching problem is that, since ww2, the USA has turned their founding documents and institutions into holy relics that cannot be changed.