So Beka Economopoulos (who is so cool that she always forgets that she’s met me before hehe) writes me and tells me about the Twitter Vote Project:
On Friday, October 24th, web developers, designers, and activists will team up for a nationwide day-long coding jam session to build out a new project called Twitter Vote Report. Inspired by a blog post by techPresident writers Allison Fine and Nancy Scola, volunteers across the country are moving quickly to build a decentralized election monitoring system that will allow voters to use text messages to report incidents of voter suppression, long lines, broken machines, and other disruptions on election day. The Twitter Vote Report site will aggregate the reporting data, represent it in real-time on a dynamic web map, and notify voters, election monitoring groups, and the media, facilitating rapid response by poll workers and activists.
All the previous talk of Twitter as a disaster reporting tool or as a disease prevention tool has never seemed to pan out with a full case study. I really hope Twitter Vote Report puts up some reasonable reporting after the election. I’m really curious to see how it will all work out. If any of you decide to go to the Brooklyn coding session, e-mail me at abenamer@nonprofittechblog.org. I’m in Brooklyn myself and will accompany any NPTB reader who goes.
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