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[00:00.42] About a decade or so ago, I helped run a lot of the campaigns around the US to legalize Uber.

[00:07.06] And I know that now when you guys think of Uber, it's this giant corporation.

[00:12.37] But back then, we were a tiny little tech startup, and taxi was this big, politically powerful industry who really didn't like us.

[00:19.81] And we knew we couldn’t out-muscle them.

[00:23.26] And so instead, we turned to the people.

[00:25.65] And by making it possible for our customers to tell their elected officials, "Hey, I like this Uber thing, please leave it alone," we were able to mobilize millions of people through the app to advocate on our behalf.

[00:41.61] And when mayors and city council members started hearing from thousands of their constituents, that's exactly what they did.

[00:49.31] They left Uber alone.

[00:50.64] It's how we won at basically every market in the country.

[00:54.09] And while this was happening, I just remember sitting there thinking, "God bless these people.

[00:59.14] They're making my job a lot easier."

[01:00.73] But my guess is they don't know who their city council member is.

[01:06.04] They don't vote in state Senate primaries.

[01:07.37] And you know, why would they?

[01:09.50] They're busy, they have kids, they have jobs, they have lives.

[01:14.01] But when we made it really easy, when we let people reach their politicians directly from their phones, everything changed.

[01:22.52] So what if we could vote this way?

[01:24.37] So in 2017, we created the Mobile Voting Project.

[01:28.36] And the first thing we did was work with election officials in seven states, red and blue, where either deployed military or people with disabilities were able to vote in real elections on their phones. Soldiers from West Virginia stationed in Afghanistan.

[01:44.56] People who are blind in Denver.

[01:46.42] In one election in Seattle, we let everyone participate.

[01:50.40] And after doing it for two years in a row, turnout tripled.

[01:55.45] Denver did a poll of those who participated in their election, and 100 percent, so every single respondent, said, "Yeah, I like pressing a button better than having to go somewhere." Shocking, right?

[02:07.14] In other big news, water is wet, and ice cream tastes good.

[02:13.25] But that was for specific groups of voters.

[02:15.11] And we wanted everyone to be able to vote securely on their phones.

[02:19.36] So four years ago, we started building our own mobile voting technology.

[02:23.34] We're almost done, we're going to finish it this summer.

[02:27.06] And when we do, it's going to be free and open-source to any government in the world that wants to use it.

[02:32.92] And to be clear, this is just an additional way to vote.

[02:35.84] If you like voting by mail, vote by mail.

[02:38.50] If you like voting in person, great, do that.

[02:41.15] Some people really like the ceremony that comes with going somewhere and waiting in line and all of that.

[02:46.73] And if that happens to be you, knock yourself out.

[02:49.39] But based on turnout, that's not most of you.

[02:53.90] So let's give people another option.

[02:56.29] So as I mentioned before, and as you can probably tell from my accent, I'm from New York, so I'm going to use that as the example for how it works.

[03:04.26] I go on the App Store, and I download the New York City Board of Elections app.

[03:08.52] And the first thing they do is say, OK, is Bradley really a registered voter here in New York City?

[03:14.09] I put in my address.

[03:15.15] Fine. Next thing is multi-factor authentication.

[03:19.40] So you know how, like, when you forget your Google password, they send you a code and you put it back into the app?

[03:24.45] Same thing here.

[03:26.04] Then we take a scan of your face, match that up against your government ID.

[03:30.56] And at this point we've fully established, OK, Bradley is really Bradley.