My Mobile Fascination
So perhaps I am too obsessed in mobile technologies, but this was just plain interesting. Voter registration campaigns are turning to a new weapon to combat low turnout among younger voters this November: the cellphone.
Nonprofit groups have begun collecting the cell numbers of college-age voters as part of wider registration efforts. Their aim is to contact young people through wireless calls and text messaging to improve upon the turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds, which the Census Bureau reported was 32 percent in 2000.
Why restrict it to college kids? I would personally love to have someone text message me to remind me to vote. While I rarely forget the big elections I have often forgotten primaries and such. Being able to text in my vote (while wildly insecure) would help me even more. Can you imagine the power of the vote if people could (securely) text their votes for president?
Full article at
NYT Circuits
Posted by at May 28, 2004 06:32 PM
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