My friend Nathan just sent an email around about an app he built that interface's with Twittervotereport which was built by volunteers in partnership with techPresident; it turns your phone into an on-the-spot volunteer election reporting mechanism. The aggregate effect will be to visualize reporting problems around the nation in real time. Election monitoring orgs have been dreaming about this for eons!! Here's the email from Nathan:
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Just wanted to make sure y'all knew about this: http://twittervotereport.com
I built an app for the new G1/Android phone that uses your GPS location
to accurately track where you are reporting from:
http://openideals.com/2008/10/
Twitter Vote Report is an all-volunteer network of software developers,
designers, and other collaborators have teamed up with the award-winning
blog techPresident to launch this effort. The only resources
contributed to this project are the participants’ time and expertise!
Millions of Americans will be voting this Election Day. Many of these
voters will have terrific experiences and we’d love to hear about
those. But many voters will experience voting problems that we have
been hearing about for years: long lines, broken machines, and
registered voters who can’t vote because their names aren’t showing up
on the registration rolls. Using Twitter Vote Report, voters will be
able to share their experiences and resources with one another to solve
problems quickly (e.g. “don’t come now, the line is too long”). These
messages will then be aggregated and mapped so that we can “see” voting
problems around the country in real-time.
Spread the word!
