Using Technology to Monitor the Election
by Amanda Adams*, 11/3/2008
Numerous online resources have popped up lately that allow everyone to participate and protect the election process. Now, you can share your voting experiences with the world. Here are a few online tools;
- VoterStory.org is a web widget to collect voter complaints across the web and feed them to a network of groups standing by to help individual voters and monitor trends.
- Video the Vote is a network of citizens working to document voter suppression and disenfranchisement.
- Twitter Vote Report is a unique way to report on experiences at the polls. Voters can report using Twitter, an online service that lets people send very short messages to one another, such as by sending a text message. Twitter Vote Report aggregates the information and will create maps that show where there are problems.
