With Big Data, Who Needs Electronic Voting?

In the Future, Big Data Will Make Actual Voting Obsolete

Robert Epstein | April 27, 2016

Because I conduct research on how the Internet affects elections, journalists have lately been asking me about the primaries. Here are the two most common questions I’ve been getting:
Do Google’s search rankings affect how people vote?
How well does Google Trends predict the winner of each primary?
My answer to the first question is: Probably, but no one knows for sure. [...]

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/rahulsharma4201993/big-data-and-internet

<more at http://qz.com/669983/maybe-we-should-let-google-vote-for-us/; related articles and links: http://qz.com/669753/google-knows-how-you-will-vote-based-on-your-states-search-results/ (Google knows how you will vote, based on your state’s search results. April 26, 2016) and http://election.princeton.edu/2016/04/22/two-ways-to-estimate-primary-outcomes-without-polls/ (Two independent ways of predicting GOP primaries lead to highly similar forecasts. April 22, 2016)>