--- title: The Case Against Voting in Person description: The case against in-person voting, how Twitter's latest moves against ISIS are working and more. canonical: https://time.com/4241217/against-in-person-voting/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-29T17:01:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:20.139Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Case Against Voting in Person og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4241217/against-in-person-voting/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Case Against Voting in Person twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Case Against Voting in Person by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 29, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 29, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Let’s get rid of in-person voting.**](https://theconversation.com/why-its-time-to-end-in-person-voting-for-good-54868) By Ben Pryor in the Conversation **2\.** [**Twitter is kind of winning its war on Islamic State.**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-25/twitter-s-kind-of-winning-its-war-on-islamic-state) By Tobin Harshaw in Bloomberg View **3\.** [**Is tech disrupting education — by enabling cheating?**](https://medium.com/bright/the-cheating-economy-37edcee29ee#.ttqlk424m) By Doug Bierend in Bright **4\.** [**Virtual fossils — accessible anywhere online — will change the study of human evolution.**](https://aeon.co/opinions/virtual-fossils-revolutionise-the-study-of-human-evolution) By Doug Boyer in Aeon **5\.** [**Want to improve your memory? Ignore more stuff.**](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/ignoring-stuff-is-good-for-your-memory/) By Julia Shaw in Scientific American  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4241217/against-in-person-voting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4241217/against-in-person-voting/"},"headline":"The Case Against Voting in Person","datePublished":"2016-02-29T17:01:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:20.139Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4241217/against-in-person-voting/","keywords":["Innovation","Education","twitter","ISIS","memory","fossils","Super Tuesday"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4241217/against-in-person-voting/","name":"The Case Against Voting in Person"}}]}] ```