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    <updated>2008-11-04T18:35:46Z</updated>
    <title>Your Election Day Web Toolkit</title>
    <summary>Your Election Day Web Toolkit</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Sarah Perez</name>
      <uri>http://www.sarahintampa.com</uri>
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      <![CDATA[<p><strong><i>Everything you need to find voter information, report on your experience, and track election results using social media and the web.</i></strong></p>

<p><img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/i_voted.jpg">Over the past few weeks, we've heard of several different ways we can use the web to keep track of the U.S. Election coverage. We can use <a href="www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_launches_us_voter_info_site.php">Google to locate our voting locations</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/VIDEOYOURVOTE">record our voting experience for YouTube</a>, and even <a href="http://twittervotereport.com">Twitter our voting issues</a>. Now that E-Day is finally upon us, it's time revisit those tools as we prepare for the most digitally enhanced election ever. </p>]]>
      <![CDATA[<h2>Get Info On Voting</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Visit Google's <a href="http://www.google.com/2008election">2008 Election site</a> to get voter information, directions to the polls, or your state's voter hotline. (And once you know your polling site, you can catch a ride with the <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/carpool/polls/">Carpool to the Polls</a> Facebook app). </li>

  <li><a href="http://vote411.org/">Vote411</a> has a poll finder and other related election information, ideal for last minute information. </li>

  <li><a href="http://www.canivote.org/">Can I Vote?</a> If you're not sure if you're registered to vote, head over to Can I Vote to confirm your details. </li>

  <li><a href="https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/overseas/home.htm">Overseas Vote Foundation</a>: Information on voting if you're living or traveling outside of the United States. </li>

  <li><a href="http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/template_page.aspx?id=44742">Pew Center on the States</a>: Information on poll opening and closing times. </li>

  <li><a href="http://www.866ourvote.org/">Election Protection</a>: Monitors voting problems. Place to report issues or track them as they happen. </li>

  <li>Track voter rights news and resources at the nonpartisan Election Protection coalition's <a href="http://www.866ourvote.org/">866ourvote.org</a>. </li>

  <li>Check out a map-based overview of voting machines used in each state from <a href="http://verifiedvoting.org/">VerifiedVoting.org</a> and the Verified Voter Foundation, both run by technologists advocating for reliable and publicly verifiable elections. </li>
</ul>

<h2>Record Your Experience</h2>

<p><u><strong>With Video</strong></u></p>

<ul>
  <li>Bring a video camera with you to the polls to capture your voting experience on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/videoyourvote">YouTube's Video Your Vote</a> channel. Google is using Google Maps to track these videos across the country - and to see where polling problems might be occurring during the day. </li>

  <li>Document the irregularities or other problems you encounter with your cell phone camera, Flip videocam, or other device, and then upload that content to the CBS News social-media site <a href="http://www.cbseyemobile.com">CBS Eye Mobile</a>. Alternatively, you can submit by e-mail to the address <a href="mailto:politics@cbseyemobile.com">politics@cbseyemobile.com</a>. The CBS News Investigates team will monitor those submissions, and may then present select ones in <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/politics/main250.shtml">election coverage</a> at CBSNews.com or in on-air reports. </li>
</ul>

<p><u><strong>Via Twitter</strong></u></p>

<p><a href="http://twittervotereport.com/">TwitterVoteReport</a> is a Twitter app that will aggregate all the election day tweets that use the Twitter hashtag #votereport. Just include "#votereport" in your tweet in order for it to get tracked by the service. More advanced Twitterers can also include other hashtags like:</p> 

    <ul>
      <li>#[zip code] to indicate the zip code where you're voting; ex., "#12345″ </li>

      <li>L:[address or city] to drill down to your exact location; ex. "L:1600 Pennsylvania Avenue DC" </li>

      <li>#machine for machine problems; ex., "#machine broken, using prov. ballot" </li>

      <li>#reg for registration troubles; ex., "#reg I wasn't on the rolls" </li>

      <li>#wait:[minutes] for long lines; ex., "#wait:120 and I'm coming back later" </li>

      <li>#early if you're voting before November 4th </li>

      <li>#good or #bad to give a quick sense of your overall experience </li>

      <li>#EP[your state] if you have a serious problem and need help from the Election Protection coalition; ex., #EPOH </li>
    </ul>

<p><u><strong>From Your Mobile</strong></u></p>

<ul>

  <li>Send a text message to 66937 and start your message with "#votereport"<em></em> </li>

  <li><em></em><a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=294901399&amp;mt=8">Download and use the iPhone app</a> for VoteReport </li>

  <li>Find the "votereport" app in the Google Android marketplace </li>
</ul>

<p><u><strong>From Your Phone</strong></u></p>

<ul>
  <li>Enter a report by calling 567-258-8683 (VOTE), 208-272-9024, or 617-960-8900 </li>

  <li>If you have a problem voting or see one, call the <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/category/voter-problems/">CNN Voter Hotline</a> at 877-GOCNN-08 (1-877-462-6608).</li>
</ul>

<p><u><strong>On The Web</strong></u></p>

<ul>
  <li>If you find yourself having trouble casting your vote, <a href="http://www.appscout.com/2008/11/report_election_day_problems_w_1.php">VoterStory.org</a> can help. This non-partisan site is designed to let voters report problems with their local polling place. </li>
  <li>If you have a problem voting or see one, share your early voting experience with CNN's <a href="http://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=119884">iReport</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>

<h2>Get The Election Results</h2>

<p><u><strong>Videos</strong></u></p>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/">CNN</a>, MSNBC and ABC News will stream their election coverage live. </li>

<li>MSNBC's <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032553/">feed</a> is already up. Watch it here. </li>

<li>Watch up-to-the minute election news on Hulu with their <a href="http://www.hulu.com/msnbc-decision-08?c=News-and-Information">MSNBC Decision 08</a> coverage. </li>

<li>ABC News will stream using Windows Media Player, but will make its feed embeddable for local affiliates using tech from live-streaming service Ustream. </li>

<li>Watch <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mccain-2008-live">John McCain's official Ustream feed</a> to see his final stump speech at 11:30 a.m. MT in Colorado. </li>

<li>Watch <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-campaign-coverage">Barack Obama's official Ustream feed</a> at 9 p.m. CT in Chicago to see his concession/victory speech. </li>

<li>Politico's James Kotecki <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/politico-tv2">will stream live on Tuesday evening 7 p.m. to midnight</a>. </li>
</ul>

  <p><u><strong>On The Web</strong></u></p>

  <ul>
    <li>The New York Times will publish a dashboard to track results as they come in at the county level. NYTimes.com will also keep track of which races the major news organizations have already called. More on the Times' efforts <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/election-night-essentials/">here</a>. </li>

    <li>Visit <a href="http://twittervotereport.com">TwitterVoteReport.com</a> to see the reports flow in. </li>

    <li>The CBS News Investigates team will monitor video submissions (see above section), and may then present select ones in <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/politics/main250.shtml">election coverage</a> at CBSNews.com or in on-air reports. </li>

    <li>Political videos will be featured on the Google homepage all day, including videos made especially for Election Day by both the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5G-PSWftRs">McCain</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfjQujYrfEk">Obama</a> campaigns. </li>

    <li><a href="http://www.current.com/election">Current</a> is incorporating streams from social media sites, Digg, Twitter, 12seconds.tv, along with music from DJ Diplo. </li>

    <li>Access news and results as they occur on the <a href="http://maps.google.com/help/maps/elections/#2008_election">Google Maps Elections Gallery</a> (you can even embed the results onto your own site), or via the <a href="http://news.google.com/?ned=us&amp;topic=el">Elections section</a> of Google News. </li>

    <li><a href="http://socialmedian.com">Socialmedian</a> is pulling in all sorts of media from tweets to blog posts to Flickr photos, widgetizing all the updates they find, and featuring them on web sites like the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/">washingtonpost.com</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/">guardian.co.uk</a>, and <a href="http://www.mediadeluge.com/post/56980964/socialmedian-aggregates-user-generated-election">mediadeluge.com</a>. </li>

    <li><a href="http://ask.com">Ask.com</a> launched Election Poll Smart Answers that give local polling information in just one click. </li>

    <li>Twitter tracks election-related tweets at <a href="http://election.twitter.com">election.twitter.com</a> </li>

    <li>Upload photo messages about the election, the candidates and the issues to <a href="http://www.giveusahope.com">Giveusahope.com</a>. </li>

    <li>Follow and contribute crowd-sourced election stories and add your two cents on media bias at <a href="http://www.skewz.com/">Skewz.com</a>. </li>

    <li>Take a look at the aggregation of election-related news stories, blogs, polls, video and commentary on <a href="http://www.electicker2008.com/index.html">Electicker2008.com</a>. </li>

    <li>Contribute election-related news stories and video and blog posts to <a href="http://www.politics.com//">Politics.com</a>. </li>
  </ul>

  <p><u><strong>Just The Polls</strong></u></p>

  <ul>
    <li>CNN will post their exit polls <a href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls.main/">here</a>. </li>

    <li><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/election2008.aspx">Gallup.com</a> - The election 2008 poll results from Gallup, one of the best known polling companies. </li>

    <li><a href="http://www.pollster.com/">Pollster.com</a> - Tracks various polls and gives you updated charts on how each candidate is tracking. Also offers an electoral map as well as analysis of what each poll means. </li>

    <li><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com">RealClearPolitics.com</a> - Features poll breakdowns by state. You can also see a national overview that shows you which candidate is in the lead in each state and by how many points. </li>

    <li><a href="http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/">USAElectionPolls.com</a> - Brings together information on national and state polls, battleground polls, house &amp; senate polls, and more. </li>

    <li><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/poll-tracker.htm">USAToday.com</a> - While <em>USA Today's</em> map looks like an electoral vote tracker, it is a map of polls with color coding to give you an idea of the percentage of difference between the candidates. </li>
  </ul>

  <p><u><strong>From Your Mobile</strong></u></p>

  <ul>
    <li>AT&amp;T and Verizon's live mobile TV streaming provider, <a href="http://www.flotv.com/">Flo TV</a>, is offering all manner of coverage of the election, including content from NBC, CBS, FOX News, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, and MTV News--such as &quot;CBS Evening News with Katie Couric&quot; and &quot;NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.&quot; Flo TV will also offer special Election Day versions of &quot;The Colbert Report&quot; and &quot;The Daily Show,&quot; along with content from MTV's &quot;Choose or Lose&quot; and recap up through the first 100 days in office. </li>

    <li>Sprint will also have live streams and TV clips on election day, featuring content from ABC News Now, CNN Mobile and FOX News Channel. </li>

    <li><a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=288858288&amp;mt=8">Election 08 application</a> ($0.99)&#160; delivers the latest McCain and Obama polling numbers for every state, graphs historical polling trends, and charts voting patterns in previous elections. </li>

 <li>On your mobile phone, head to <a href="http://m.google.com/elections">m.google.com/elections</a> to locate your voting location as well as access the latest news. </li>

    <li>Get SMS text alerts about the election from the New York Times by messaging 698698 with the text: Newsalerts (to stop, text: Stop newsalerts) or text Elections and your zip code (eg, Elections07407) (to spot, text: Stop Elections) </li>

    <li>Viigo has just added a real-time results for tomorrow's US Election. The Live Election Results Feed will provide both Overall and State By State results throughout the evening as each contender demonstrates a Firm Lead, or is declared a Winner in each State. Results will be updated every 5 minutes. Download it for free from <a href="http://beta.viigo.com/partner/crackberry">here</a>. </li>
  </ul>
<p>
<h2>Reward Yourself!</h2>

<p>Now that you voted, reward yourself with some free stuff! If you go to Starbucks today and tell them you voted, <a href="http://blogs.starbucks.com/blogs/customer/archive/2008/10/31/free-Starbucks-for-voting.aspx">you get a free cup of coffee</a>. If you go to Ben &amp; Jerry's today and tell them you voted, <a href="http://www.benjerry.com/features/i_voted/">you get a free scoop of ice cream</a>. If you go to Krispy Kreme today and tell them you voted, <a href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=120929&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=1218420&amp;highlight=">you get a free donut</a>.</p>

 

  <p><em>Thanks to </em><a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/how-to-watch-election-day-live-online"><em>Silicon Alley Insider</em></a><em> for video sites, </em><a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/7168/voting-polls/"><em>Inquisitr</em></a><em> for voter info sites, <a href="http://www.appscout.com/2008/11/the_best_online_election_day_r.php">AppScout</a> for mobile voter sites, <a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/11/01/gigaom-readers-top-web-resources-for-the-election/">GigaOM</a> for voter info sites, <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/11/03/election-day/">Mashable</a> for poll web sites </em></p>


  <p><em>(Image credit: </em><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zappowbang/243517609/sizes/s/"><em>Zappowbang</em></a><em>)</em></p>

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    <title>Comment from Alex Williams on 2008-11-04</title>
    <author>
        <name>Alex Williams</name>
        <uri>http://alexhwilliams.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I will keep this list on hand all day. Looks like I will also go to Starbucks, Krispy Creme and Ben and Jerry's. :-)</p>]]>
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    <published>2008-11-04T16:20:10Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Greg Harrison on 2008-11-04</title>
    <author>
        <name>Greg Harrison</name>
        <uri>http://www.AnOrangeAmerica.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Great run-down piece here - thanks for this. Have been following the Twitter Vote Report all morning; some pretty interesting issues/reports so far.</p>

<p>And speaking of Twitter, there's a new microsite that I worked on with Tropicana that collates all the tweets about the election in a really interesting way. It shows frequency and context of election-related terms, live as they happen. Consider it a living information graphic: the picture changes over time as the conversation develops over time. The site will pull a continuous stream of tweets mentioning Obama and McCain. Each tweet is examined for certain key words and phrases...it's really cool technology, and I urge you all to check it out as you track the election day results!</p>

<p>www.AnOrangeAmerica.com<br />
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    <published>2008-11-04T17:08:44Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Mark Alves on 2008-11-04</title>
    <author>
        <name>Mark Alves</name>
        <uri>http://faithfulweb.wordpress.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>If you can't get through to the TwitterVoteReport site, NPR offers the polling place status map at <br />
<a href="http://www.npr.org/news/specials/votereport/map.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/news/specials/votereport/map.html</a></p>]]>
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    <published>2008-11-04T18:14:55Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Tim Schigel on 2008-11-04</title>
    <author>
        <name>Tim Schigel</name>
        <uri>http://www.sharethis.com</uri>
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.sharethis.com">
        <![CDATA[<p>Don’t forget to share all of your favorite candidate and election sites to anyone across your online networks on any social media platform using ShareThis.  We are posting our sharing data comparing all information shared on the Election 2008 candidates at Share Your Vote (http://sharethis.com/shareyourvote)</p>]]>
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    <published>2008-11-04T19:45:13Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from KM on 2008-11-04</title>
    <author>
        <name>KM</name>
        <uri>http://vbykm.wordpress.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I am <b>13 years old.</b></p>

<p>I went with my cousin on Halloween asking them something.</p>

<p>I asked if they had <i>registered to vote.</i></p>

<p>I got some <b> interesting </b> results.</p>

<p><a href="http://vbykm.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/have-you-retested-to-vote-asking-that-people-on-halloween/" rel="nofollow">http://vbykm.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/have-you-retested-to-vote-asking-that-people-on-halloween/</a></p>]]>
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    <published>2008-11-05T00:45:46Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from movie fan on 2008-11-04</title>
    <author>
        <name>movie fan</name>
        <uri>http://www.kogmedia.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>it's awesome that there has been this "problem" of long lines all over... people taking a greater interest in public issues is always a good thing</p>]]>
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    <published>2008-11-05T03:41:46Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from carlo de marchis on 2008-11-04</title>
    <author>
        <name>carlo de marchis</name>
        <uri>http://cdmwebguru.blogspot.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Please read my blog on US elections media coverage</p>

<p><a href="http://cdmwebguru.blogspot.com/2008/11/us-elections-quick-media-comparison.html" rel="nofollow">http://cdmwebguru.blogspot.com/2008/11/us-elections-quick-media-comparison.html</a></p>]]>
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    <published>2008-11-05T07:51:05Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from moderate voter on 2008-11-05</title>
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        <name>moderate voter</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>this was a great post. all the resources i need in one place!</p>]]>
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    <published>2008-11-05T17:23:30Z</published>
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