Date Published:
October 19. 2005
Published in:
CNET/News.com
Story Title:
Want to Vote? Text me Now.
Story Link:
http://news.com.com/Want+to+vote+Text+me+now/2100-1028_3-5900606.html?tag=ne
News:
Great story about MobileVoter, MobileActive, and mobiles in politics on CNET's news.com:
"On a billboard alongside a busy San Francisco boulevard, above a restaurant called "My Tofu House," a message aimed at young Asian-American voters is helping break new ground in political activism. "Register to vote," reads the advertisement, which looks more like an ad for a hip new Nokia phone than a public service message. "Text 'IVOTE' to 80837." The campaign, jointly produced by a new nonprofit called Mobile Voter and the city's Chinese-American Voter Education Committee, is one of the first in the United States to take the surge of political activity that has emerged around e-mail and the Web and move it wholly to the cell phones that are appearing in more and more pockets." More here.
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