Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who recently announced his gubernatorial campaign, said he wants people to have the option of voting by phone. “I want us to be able to vote by phone,” Swalwell said. “I want us to max out democracy,” he added. Check it out: SWALWELL: “I want us to be able to vote by phone … I want us to max out democracy.” pic.twitter.com/74cVtwYDi8 — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 22, 2025 Voting by smartphone has been proposed as a way to combat ‘low voter turnout.’ However, critics claim it would lead to “unlimited voter fraud.” Democrats want unlimited voter fraud. They want to let people vote by phone, and they want 16-year-olds doing it. What a destructive idea. And they want to mass import illegals to make sure patriots can never win again. This force must be repelled. — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 22, 2025 CBS News has more on the vote by phone push: Bradley Tusk, founder of the Mobile Voting Project, says it’s the future of our elections and would combat low voter turnout that has been blamed for putting candidates with fringe ideas into office. The entrepreneur, philanthropist and political strategist shared his plan to bring voting to smartphones with CBS News New York at his Manhattan book store on the Lower East Side. “We have spent the last four years, and I’ve spend $20 million of my own money, and this is totally philanthropic, by the way, to try to build the most secure voting technology we’ve ever had,” Tusk said. “We’re going to take the technology that you use right now for your banking, your health care, your love life, so you can vote securely on your phone.” While that may sound great to a lot of people, others wonder what protections would be in place to guarantee the security and integrity of the vote. “The first thing is multifactor authentication. They send you a code and then biometric screening,” Tusk said. “So this is exponentially more complicated and secure than any way we currently verify voters.” Tusk’s app, as it exists now, is still in a beta phase as it continues to be developed. Various iterations have already been used in smaller elections around the United States. Tusk discussed voting by phone at a recent Ted Talk: What if you could vote without leaving your house? Here's why @MobileVoting founder Bradley Tusk says creating a safe and secure way to vote via phone could be key to increasing voter turn out and reducing political extremism: https://t.co/9nGht59lW8 pic.twitter.com/Eb3ZYr2nwd — TED Talks (@TEDTalks) October 29, 2025 In addition to sparking criticism over voting by phone, Swalwell faces heat for a Washington D.C. residence at the center of a mortgage and tax fraud investigation. Justice Department Opens Criminal Probe Into Democrat Congressman Some X users think Swalwell used the D.C. home to film his campaign launch video for Governor of California. Judging from the stairway banister and the kitchen island lights, Eric Swalwell appears to have filmed his campaign launch video for California governor at his primary residence in Washington, DC. pic.twitter.com/b6yxWd7hMd — Rob Pyers (@rpyers) November 21, 2025 More from the New York Post: Swalwell, 45, kicked off his run for the Golden State governor’s office on Thursday night with a minute-long campaign video that pledged to “keep the worst president in our history out of our homes, out of our streets and out of our lives” and lower the cost of living. But X users quickly saw something was amiss and began comparing photos of the congressman’s $1.2 million Victorian-style bungalow in the nation’s capital with screenshots from the campaign spot, leading some to conclude that Swalwell had filmed a portion of his promise to “build a new California” — in DC. “Gavin Newsom’s film credits couldn’t even lure Eric Swalwell into California to shoot [h]is campaign launch video for governor,” one X user snarked in response to the post highlighting the similarities between public photos of the home’s interior before it was purchased and screenshots from the congressman’s video. The California Constitution requires candidates for governor and lieutenant governor to have maintained residency for at least five years in the state, but Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s office has said its “legal opinion” is “that this provision violates the U.S. Constitution and is unenforceable.” A Post review of public records did not show Swalwell currently owning any property in the Golden State and, in fact, revealed that the congressman hasn’t been associated with any addresses there for at least a decade, around the time he began gearing up to run for Congress.