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Wednesday September 11th 2024 at 1pm EDT
Bradley Tusk is an investor,
political strategist, philanthropist, bookstore owner, podcaster,
author and founder of MobileVoting.org (that’s quite a resume!). His
latest book is Vote With Your Phone: Why Mobile Voting Is Our Final
Shot at Saving Democracy.
One key takeaway is that The only
election that matters is the primary.
Tusk has a long history in
politics, having served as campaign manager for Mike Bloomberg’s 2009
mayoral race, as Deputy Governor of Illinois, Communications Director
for US Senator Chuck Schumer, and as an advisor for Andrew Yang's
campaign in the 2021 New York City mayoral election.
He has also been the country’s
foremost champion of mobile voting since 2017. “If the electorate is
made up largely of partisan voters,” Tusk said in a recent interview,
“we end up electing tendentious, uncompromising politicians who do not
represent the will of the people. We’re completely polarized, and
nothing gets done. I don’t see how democracy survives absent radically
higher participation… The greatest threat to our democracy is that
nobody votes.”
On Wednesday
September 11th at 1pm EDT
Open Primaries President John Opdycke will sit down with Tusk for a
deep dive discussion into the intersection between technology, voter
participation and the rules of the political game.
You don’t want to miss this
discussion! Register today.
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