Cross country book tour begins next week
including stops at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library (with
Martin Luther King III), Roosevelt
House Public Policy Institute at Hunter
College (with NYC Council
Member Chi Ossé), and more
NEW
YORK, Sept. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
Philanthropist and political strategist Bradley Tusk is
releasing his third book, Vote with Your Phone: Why Mobile
Voting is Our Final Shot at Saving Democracy, in which he
makes the case that allowing Americans to vote in elections from
their phones would dramatically increase turnout, reduce extremism,
and fix our broken politics. Published by Sourcebooks, the new
book hits shelves on September 17,
2024 and is available wherever books are sold.
With a background that includes roles as campaign manager for
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Deputy Governor of
Illinois, communications director
for Senator Chuck Schumer and Uber's
first political advisor, Tusk brings his unique and candid insight
into the intricacies of American politics and voter engagement. In
his new book, Tusk explains how mobile voting will break
down barriers that have made in-person and even mail voting
inaccessible for countless Americans. He outlines the work he's
doing through Tusk Philanthropies' Mobile Voting, bringing together
a team of cybersecurity experts to create the first and only
end-to-end encrypted and end-to-end verifiable voting platform that
is open-source.
Kirkus Reviews says Vote With Your
Phone is "a rousing call for Gens Z and Alpha to leverage
technology and save democracy" and "a sensible, convincing program
to expand voting rights and democratic virtue."
Featuring guest essays from civil rights advocate
Martin Luther King III,
Nevada Secretary of State Cisco
Aguilar, Congressman Josh
Gottheimer, U.S. Representative for New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District,
co-chair of the House Problem Solvers Caucus, David Hogg, the Co-Founder and President of
Leaders We Deserve and Co-Founder of the student-led movement,
March For Our Lives, Mark
Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the
Blind, and leading cybersecurity experts, Vote with Your
Phone makes clear the solution to restoring faith in our
democracy is right in the palm of our hands.
"When my father marched for equality decades ago, he understood
that voting rights were a necessary part of the struggle for
freedom and equality. Those on the other side know it too, which is
why they have systematically made it harder for every American to
vote," writes Martin Luther King
III in his guest essay. "Mobile voting would empower all
voters to exercise their most fundamental democratic right using
the same technology they use in their everyday lives."
Mark Riccobono writes,
"The lived experience of blind people has taught us that there are
irrational barriers built into election systems. For blind
Americans, the experience of voting is not a joyous opportunity to
participate in our democracy but rather a test of overcoming
adversity."
"Our vulnerable and historically marginalized communities can
and have the ability to decide crucial elections - and their voices
are some of the most important. But if we want them to participate
in our democracy, we have to meet them where they're at," writes
Nevada Secretary of State Cisco
Aguilar.
David Hogg writes: "The
discrepancy between our technological progress and our outdated
voting system is a glaring contradiction we cannot afford to
ignore. By embracing mobile voting, we are not just advocating for
technological advancement; we are fortifying our commitment to a
democracy that is of the people, by the people, and for the
people."
Vote With Your Phone: Why Mobile Voting Is Our Final Shot At
Saving Democracy presents a compelling narrative of the
transformative power that mobile voting can have on our democracy
and how embracing this technology ensures that every American's
voice is heard.
Cross-country Book Tour Dates:
- September 19, 2024 - New York Law
School in conversation with Ben
Max, program director for NYSL's Center for New York City
- September 24, 2024 - The
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College in conversation with Council
Member for New York City's 36th
District, Chi Ossé and Kelly Mena of
NY1
- September 26, 2024 - The Carter
Presidential Library in conversation with Civil Rights Advocate
Martin Luther King III, Chairman of Drum Major Institute
- October 1, 2024 - Books &
Books in conversation with former Mayor of Miami Beach, Philip
Levine
- October 5, 2024 - Politics &
Prose in conversation with Teddy
Schleifer, New York
Times
- October 9, 2024 - Zibby's
Bookshop in conversation with Sasha
Issenberg, POLITICO
- October 10, 2024 - Manny's in
conversation with Founder Manny
Yekutiel
About Bradley Tusk
Bradley Tusk is a venture
capitalist, political strategist, philanthropist, and writer. He is
the CEO 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. Bradley's family foundation is funding and leading
the national campaign to bring mobile voting to U.S. elections and
also has run anti-hunger campaigns in 24 different states, helping
to feed over 13 million people. He is also an adjunct professor at
Columbia Business School.
Before Vote With Your Phone, Bradley authored The
Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups From Death by Politics and
Obvious in Hindsight. He hosts a 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.
In his earlier 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.
Press Contact:
Erin
Haworth, High 10 Media | erin@high10media.com
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