Video the Vote: Web 2.0 with teeth.
Oct. 30th, 2008 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andygatesI love this: We've all heard the stories about voting machines flipping votes or being generally shonky and bent; and we've all heard the stories about people being told that they can't vote if they're students or don't have a driver's license or similar. So how do we ensure transparency and restore good faith in the process in the face of all this incompetence and gerrymandering? Why, with technology, that's how!
Take your mobile to the polls. Video your voting. Video any weirdness (officials telling you to show your "real American" card at the door, say). Upload it to YouTube. Then tell Video the Vote : it's a clearinghouse and they'll bring hot stories to the attention of the mainstream media.
It's so obvious that I wish I'd thought of it.
Take your mobile to the polls. Video your voting. Video any weirdness (officials telling you to show your "real American" card at the door, say). Upload it to YouTube. Then tell Video the Vote : it's a clearinghouse and they'll bring hot stories to the attention of the mainstream media.
It's so obvious that I wish I'd thought of it.
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Date: 2008-10-31 12:53 pm (UTC):) We are supposedly a "swing" state too.