Scott is a native Oregonian, who grew up mostly in Corvallis before going to school at the University of Chicago, studying Chemistry and Political Science. After Chicago, he organized for Obama for America before returning to Oregon, eventually joining the Bus Project and then the Bus Federation. In 2012 he built TheBallot.org at the Bus Federation – a nationwide social voter guide which served over 150,000 voters from September until Election Day.
In April, Scott moved from Portland to San Francisco to start a job as the Lead Developer at ShareProgress, a progressive technology company that helps organizations drive more sharing from their online community, and more clicks from their member’s friends. Additionally Scott works with advocates and campaigns to create websites and apps that mobilize, inform, and empower citizens, like #SoundOff @ Congress which connects citizens to their congressional delegation over Twitter.
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Towards 2016: The Future of American Elections
Democracy requires participation. Only 55 percent of registered voters vote in major U.S. elections. Voting laws are meanwhile getting even more restrictive and locally unique, thanks in part to recent Supreme Court revisions to the Voting Rights Act. Can technology help fix America's broken voting system? Will we eventually vote by phone or internet? How will 2016 be different from 2012? Jocelyn Benson of Wayne State University, Judd Choate of the Colorado Department of State, Scott Duncombe of ShareProgress, Google's Eric Hysen, Tammy Patrick of Arizona's Maricopa County, Katherine Grainer of Civitas, and civic researcher Kate Krontiris discuss at Techonomy 2013 in Tucson, Ariz. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
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Techonomy 13
A new society is coming into being. People around the world are building it using the rapidly-evolving tools of technology.
