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Twitter Vote Report : Twitter Meets The Voting Process

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Everyday we are seeing new ways social media services are changing how we experience events in our community to around the world. This coming November 4th Americans will head to the polls for the Presidential Election and from my memory this will be the first Election since twitter/social media has taken off.

Enter the Twitter Vote Report (twittervotereport.com) :

So, get ready to Twitter your Vote Report! Voters can share their experiences with other people in real-time using Twitter.com. This will help other voters not to show up when the lines are too long, and let the media and watchdog groups know that there are machinery problems or that voters are being asked for identification unnecessarily (or necessarily if they are first-time voters) in certain precincts.

To let your voice be heard on the report go to twitter, write your message and use the hashtag #votereport.

Report back with posts on things like :

1. The time of day (9:20 am, 1:12 pm)
2. The zip code you just voted in (e.g. 10591, 10012)
3. The issue: Wait (e.g. a waiting time of over ½ hour) Reg. (e.g. a problem with your registration) Machine (e.g. voting machines are broken or jamming)
4. Whatever else you feel like sharing on your experience.

I think it is gonna be interesting the part that social media and the social web plays in the next few weeks as we head to the polls.

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