Author event! Bradley Tusk x Sasha Issenberg

Zibby's Bookshop is thrilled to host Bradley Tusk to celebrate VOTE WITH YOUR PHONE! Bradley will be joined in conversation by Sasha Issenberg!

About the book:

Democracy is broken because the way we vote is broken. But there is a solution: Mobile Voting.

Gun Control. Abortion. From the halls of Congress, it may seem that Americans are bitterly polarized on the biggest policy issues of the day. But Americans are not as divides as we think, and polls show that most of us largely agree on even the most divisive issues. The problem lies in how we vote.

Politics is more extreme because only the most extreme voters turn out in primaries. And with politicians prioritizing reelection above all else, they shun compromise, feed this extremism, and get rewarded for it. If a lot more people vote, the views of the electorate become more mainstream, and our politicians and policies will shift to the center.

Mobile voting is the solution. We do just about everything on our phones, and yet we still can't use them to vote. But the technology exists, provides enhanced security over traditional paper ballots, and it could exponentially increase voter turnout by:

• Allowing Americans to vote from anywhere, on their own schedule
• Making voting more accessible for people who are not well served by mail-in ballots, such as voters with visual impairments and military servicemembers – and their families - overseas
• Providing more security than traditional paper ballots
• Incentivizing younger voters to participate by using technology they're familiar with

From Bradley Tusk, philanthropist and founder of the Mobile Voting Project, comes a deeply informative and timely analysis of our broken voting system, introducing us to the history, opposition, and potential of voting from our devices. Including essays by Martin Luther King Jr. III and other prominent political figures, Vote with Your Phone shows us that a solution to restoring faith in our representative democracy is right in the palm of our hands.

About the speakers:

Bradley Tusk is a venture capitalist, political strategist, philanthropist, and author of Vote With Your Phone: Why Mobile Voting Is Our Final Shot At Saving Democracy.

Before Vote With Your Phone, Bradley authored The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups From Death by Politics and Obvious in Hindsight. He hosts a twice-a-week podcast called Firewall about the intersection of tech and politics and recently opened an independent bookstore, P&T Knitwear, on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Bradley is currently the Managing Partner and Co-founder of Tusk Ventures, the world’s first venture capital fund that invests solely in early stage startups in highly regulated industries, and the founder of political consulting firm Tusk Strategies. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School.

Earlier in his career, Bradley served as campaign manager for Mike Bloomberg’s 2009 mayoral race, as Deputy Governor of Illinois — overseeing the state’s budget, operations, legislation, policy and communications — as communications director for US Senator Chuck Schumer, and as Uber’s first political advisor.

Sasha Issenberg is a journalist author of The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age, and four previous books on topics ranging from the global sushi business to the legal battles over same-sex marriage to the science of political campaigns. He teaches in UCLA’s political-science department and oversees Politico’s coverage of ballot measures in California. He lives in Venice.

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