Hullabaloo

Monday, April 21, 2008

 
Hey Pennsylvanians

by digby


Here's a neat tool to use tomorrow:

Help Make Sure Every Voter's Story Gets Told in 2008

The VoterStory web widget is programmed to collect and classify voter complaints in real time across the Internet and will provide a data feed of complaints that can be addressed in real time by Voter Protection groups who partner with VoterStory. Originally developed for the 2006 General Election, the VoterStory Web Widget is distributed web technology that enables a broad and expandable network to easily place sophisticated voter protection functionality on news, organizational web pages, blog and social media sites such as FaceBook or MySpace.

The VoterStory widget will be active on April 15, 2008. Complaints generated in the Pennsylvania Primary will be shared with election protection partners.

Click here to download the VoterStory Media Advisory.

1 On Election Day, the voter completes the form with their story.

2 When they hit "submit" their information is transmitted to voter protection organizations who will be standing by to intervene or lend support if necessary.

3 The voter also receives an email confirming that their story was transmitted.

4 Voter information is entered into a database of election incidents.

5 Voter Protection groups receive live information about voting problems during the election.

You can download this handy widget for your site:



I think this tool could be extremely important in the fall campaign. (You know they will try to steal it...)


This is, by the way, a tool developed by political activists, which is pretty great.


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digby 4/21/2008 03:24:00 PM |