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Friday, October 24: Nationwide VoteReport Jam Sessions
Programmers, Designers, and Activists Team Up to Build Twitter-Based Election Monitoring System
WHAT: Volunteer programmers, designers and activists across the country will coordinate in online chat rooms and at real-world coding parties on Friday to build Twitter Vote Report, a groundbreaking web election monitoring system to fight voter suppression and disruption efforts. Anyone with a Twitter.com account will be able to use their cell phones or computers to send a message notifying voters, election monitors, and the media of problems around the country. A web map will display incidents in real-time.
There are three ways to participate on Friday:
1. Join us at the coding jam session headquarters in Brooklyn, NY,
2. Host your own coding jam session,
3. Join us in IRC freenode channel #VoteReport. (html links to be added.)
WHEN: Friday, November 24th, 11am – 6pm EST.
WHERE: Headquartered at “Brooklyn Coworking” in The Change You Want To See Gallery, 84 Havemeyer St, Brooklyn NY 11211.
Additional locations across the country listed here: http://wiki.votereport.us/Votereport%20Jam%20Session
Background Info:
On November 4th 2008, millions of Americans will go to over 200,000 distinct voting locations and using different systems and machinery to vote. Some voters will have a terrific experiences, and others will experience the same problems we have been hearing about for years - long lines, broken machines, inaccurate voting rolls, and others will experience problems that we haven't heard about before. Using Twitter.com and 1-866-Our-Vote Hotline, voters will have a new way to share these experiences with one another and ensure that the media and watchdog groups are aware of any problems.
As news outlets and blogs will report on Election Day stories, we are building an invaluable resource for thousands of voters to get immediate help. From questions like "where do I vote" or "how do I make sure that my rights are being upheld," Twitter Voter Report augments these efforts by providing a new way for voters to send text messages (aka tweets) via cellphones or computers which will be aggregated and mapped so that everyone can see the Nation's voting problems in real-time.
Imagine a Nationwide web map with pins identifying every zip code where Americans are waiting over 30 minutes to vote or indicating those election districts where the voting machines are not working. Collectively we will inform each other when when the lines too long and ensure that media and watchdog groups know where problems exist.
Communication Groups and External links
- PBwiki - you are here
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Google Group
- Google Code (TBD)
- Flickr Group
- Tags to use - VoteReport, VoteReport2008
Press Releases
In The News and Blog Coverage
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Tweet Your Voting Moment, Kate Phillips, New York Times (The Caucus blog), October 27, 2008
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Tweet Your Voting Problems, Nancy Watzman, Politics West, October 27, 2008
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Sneak Preview Tour of NPR's Election Studio, October 24, 2008
- Twitter for Fair Elections, Dave Weinberger, October 23, 2008
- Help, please, with test data for Twitter Vote Report, Jon Pincus, Liminal States, October 22, 2008
- Twitter Election Protection and Voting Myths Dispelled, Michael Connery, Election Protection, October 22, 2008
- Deceptive Practices 2.0: Legal and Policy Responses (pdf), report by Common Cause, the Lawyers Commitee for Civil Rights Under the Law, and the Century Foundation, October 21, 2008
- 'Net yields new dirty tricks, means to fight them, Julian Sanchez, Ars Technica, October 21, 2008
- Twitter Vote Report Project Gathers Steam, Nancy Scola and Allison Fine, techPresident/Personal Democracy Forum, October 20, 2008
- Saving Democracy with Twitter, Tracy Viselli, Reno and Its Discontents, October 18, 2008
- Twitter: An Antidote to Election Day Voting Problems?, Nancy Scola and Allison Fine, techPresident/Personal Democracy Forum, October 6, 2008
- OTHER: Google News results and Google Blog Search results for "Twitter Vote Report"
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