Twitter Vote Report

About

Rocketboom goes behind the scenes on Twitter Vote Report:

Twitter Vote Report is a non-partisan, all-volunteer network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators have teamed up with the award-winning blog techPresident to launch this effort. The only resources contributed to this project are the participants’ time and expertise!

Millions of Americans will be voting this Election Day. Many of these voters will have terrific experiences and we’d love to hear about those. But many voters will experience voting problems that we have been hearing about for years: long lines, broken machines, and registered voters who can’t vote because their names aren’t showing up on the registration rolls.

Using Twitter Vote Report, voters will be able to share their experiences and resources with one another (e.g. “#wait:120″ meaning that the wait time is 120 minutes). These messages will then be aggregated and mapped so that we can “see” voting problems around the country in real-time.

Our network includes a large number of people who have contributed their time and expertise to this project. They include (in alphabetical order):

Mike Buhkin

Andy Carvin

Matt Cooperrider

Sanford Dickert

Beka Economopoulos

Allison Fine

Cory Forsyth

Ha-Hoa Hamano

Amanda Hesser

Noel Hidalgo

Devanshu Mehta