With nearly 814 million people set to vote over the next few weeks in India’s general elections, the biggest democratic exercise on the planet, political parties are scrambling to out-innovate each other. Amid all this, some technology startups are finding a killer app for their products, especially given the massive outreach programs required by political leaders for wooing their… Read More
Unfortunately for one ambitious, young new resident of the California State Prison System, it seems there actually might be some justice in politics—at least for a 22 year-old caught stuffing a college election ballot box, that is.
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Early in 2012, I signed up for the Barack Obama and Mitt Romney campaigns’ email lists with a rarely used old email address. While I knew that this small dataset couldn’t reveal the extreme sophistication of their email strategies, I set out to analyze the emails I’d received (and rarely read) – and discovered some surprising differences in strategy (at least as it related to the emails I was sent). More »
The campaigns are over, the commercials claiming each candidate did or didn’t do this or that have stopped running, and the 2012 United States Presidential Election is now in the hands of voters across the country. More »
If you believe in the power of voting, chances are you’re going to head to a polling place sometime between now and the end of the day to cast your ballot. You’ll probably be waiting a few minutes as well. With that in mind, we tossed together 10 election day pieces for you to save to Instagram/Pocket/Readability to distract you. More »
It’s election day. Some of you have the fortune of being able to vote electronically, thus removing any confusion over whether or not that chad was hanging. Well it’s supposed to remove confusion in theory. Have you voted yet? Was it some form of an electronic ballot? Did you notice anything sketchy? Let’s talk about it. More »
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On this election day, many feel “liberated” that they have finally been able to cast their vote, but also that the campaign is over. In the excitation of the moment, many people snap a shot of their vote and post it on social networks. There are many motivations for doing so, but you should know that in certain places, this is actually illegal. For example some states prohibit the usage of photographic equipment in polling places. AllthingsD lists “Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada and Texas” as such states.
It gets worse: in some places, posting ballots to a public place can be considered to be “election fraud”, which is a felony (admittedly a weird one), but that’s the law that is in place now. It’s not clear if those rules would be enforced or not, but if the election is as tight as the polls show – anything is possible, so if you want your vote to count, be safe and be mindful about the local laws and regulations. Check more tips to stay out of trouble from citmedialaw.org Happy voting!
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If you’re a resident of NYC or Westchester, Long Island and Rockland counties, you can submit an affadavit ballot for the presidential and US Senatorial elections at any polling place in the state of New York you like tomorrow. You can’t vote in local elections, but it’s still useful for those who’s living and transportations situations we’re affected by Hurricane Sandy. [Twitter] More »
When you head to the polls this November you’re supposed to vote for who you think will best lead the country for the next four years. But that’s not really what happens. Deep down everyone who steps into that voting booth knows that they could do a far better job as President of the United States of America. More »
Mobile devices are becoming increasingly ingrained into our lives. From education to work-life and entertainment to news updates, they are pretty much a part of our every activity. This year, we saw U.S. election campaigns making heavy use of internet and the social media.
It so seems that most smartphone and tablet users have been relying on their devices to get regular updates on the elections. In a recent poll, 60 percent mobile users have stated that they would definitely like to cast their votes via their mobile devices, if that were possible. (more…)
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