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It’s election season and Google is doing its part to help you “rock the vote.” No, the search kingpin isn’t endorsing a specific candidate, instead it’s doing what it does best — help people search the internet for information. The company’s open source Voter Information Tool is designed to help people research candidates and locate polling places. In an effort to reach the masses, Google is partnering with companies such as Foursquare and AT&T. Election Day can be a chaotic event to say the least. Hopefully this powerful new web-based tool will make things run a little smoother for frantic voters trying to beat the clock.

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Google’s Voter Information Tool hopes to make Election Day a little easier originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Oct 2012 06:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you want to know the Internet’s temperature on Obama and Romney in the race to become the next President, just check out this snazzy 2012 Election Mood Meter tool. It smartly calculates and analyzes real-time tweets to figure out which direction each candidate is trending. More »

Need yet another constant stream of election information? AT&T’s joined up with the Pew Center to bring election coverage to your pocket, courtesy of VoteHub. The new app is a “nonpartisan clearinghouse for essential voter information,” including candidate info, AP press coverage, election results and the requisite social sharing through sites like Twitter, Facebook and Google+. The app’s available now for Android, with an iOS version coming in the near future.

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AT&T launches VoteHub, brings the presidential election to your pocket originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tumblr will be covering tomorrow’s presidential debate in the best way possible—by live-GIFfing it. And suddenly, the election became almost tolerable. More »

Seriously. I mean, we rag on these politicians all the time for their social media gaffes, but does anyone really care? Does it matter to you, when it comes to actually punch your ballot, whether Romney’s app misspelled America or Obama was a little loose with his volunteers’ kinda private information? More »