A new report finds that 1 in 5 requested absentee mail-in election ballots never got counted in 2008, recommending that voters instead turn to polling places with electronic voting machines. So-called non-precinct voting has nearly doubled since 2000, rising from 14% to 28% in 2008.
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If social media mattered in elections, Ron Paul would have likely been the Republican presidential candidate, not Mitt Romney.
Welcome to TechCrunch’s ongoing series where we hold major tech companies accountable for spreading propaganda about their service’s value to the democratic process. Today, Google released a “study” showing that swing voters are turning to the Internet in droves (64%) to fact-check candidates. We rate this study “mostly misleading” for a few reasons. 1).
Silicon Valley, residents of California, and citizens in 11 other states can now register to vote online. California, the newest state to ease the inconvenience of voter registration, launched their online portal today. “Today, the Internet replaces the mailbox for thousands of Californians wishing to register to vote,” California Secretary of State Debra Bowen said.
For the tech industry, the 2010 election presents a crossroads, where the policy differences being presented to voters by the two major parties are stark.
Intimidating voters at the polls is so 19th century. And, now that courts continue to overturn Republican voter ID laws, based on the fact that just 10 incidences of voter fraud in the last decade doesn’t justify disenfranchising thousands of minority voters without a driver’s license, what is the GOP to do?
Election-mania has driven more than 60% of Facebook users to engage civically or politically on the social network. Yet, most political posts won’t be seen by undecided voters in battleground states, instead being wasted on the ears of unregistered citizens, committed partisans, or those residing in guaranteed blue and red states.
We’re just now learning what level the devastation that Hurricane Sandy caused on the East Coast, specifically in New York City and New Jersey, and people are starting to send the wagons around to raise money to assist those in need.
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