How will technology change our electoral process? Fast Company gets Crystal Ballin' with Keya Danenbaum, the founder of ElectNext, which applies the techniques of dating websites to representative democracy.READ»
Democracy: it's a beautiful thing. Except in practice, where it's often inefficient, error-prone, and logistically nightmarish for the people who actually do the dirty work of administering elections. Lehrer Architects decided to help ...READ»
Ahead of an early January referendum, the two partners, along with Harvard and the United Nations, want Sudanese rebels to know that they are being watched.READ»
While Sudanese vote about the fate of South Sudan's independence, one Sudan-born Texan supports the voting process from afar with a historic mobile-powered monitoring tool.READ»
The New York Times is breaking out the big guns this election day with an excellent online data-viz package that includes interactive projection maps and a candidate Twitter tracker.
Last thing's first: The tracker ...READ»
None other than New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called New York's first experience with electronic voting machines--complete with delays, broken equipment, and ill-prepared election workers--"a royal screw-up."READ»
Yesterday, the fate of Minnesota's Senate seat, undecided since the November election, was finally decided; the margin, out of 2.9 million votes cast, all of 312. Congratulations to Senator Al Franken.
In 2000, George W. Bush's ...READ»
Half of America's young people don't vote in presidential elections. In his first documentary, 20-year-old David Burstein shows them why they should care.READ»
Both candidates used the Internet to reach America's voters. But Team Obama mastered the medium early and exploited it to the hilt: from an active texting strategy to the MyBarackObama.com social networking site. And along the way, Obama's technology strategy changed the face of politics -- and perhaps the U.S. government -- forever.READ»
Let's talk blog promotion.
I was really glad when Chris Brogan posted this post last week regarding StumbleUpon because I've been meaning to write something similar. If you check out the image at the top of this post, you will ...READ»
When I was in college, I worked for a non-profit, unaffiliated organization that registered people to vote, specifically targeting young people. We would drive to supermarkets and movie theaters, wherever there was foot-traffic, and ...READ»
