Hi LibTech,
The EveryVote Facebook app is a free (open source) technology to increase voter turnout in university student government elections by helping students learn about, share their opinion on, and interact with all of their candidates on one convenient page. The app is still a prototype but it is available for testing at http://apps.facebook.com/everyvote. Our goal over these next 4 months is to pursue additional volunteers and grant funding so that we can release an improved Facebook app, a stand-alone (non-Facebook) platform, a mobile, and tablet version for Fall 2013 university student government and campus activities board elections. *To watch a video intro to the app, please visit** **everyvote.org/fbintro.* Furthermore, EveryVote.org is dedicated to accomplishing 2 long-range goals we believe are essential to a healthy democracy, yet too few people are talking about. They are: 1) Advocate for the creation of a publicly-accessible comprehensive candidate database, so that any developer can make a tool that provides you with factual information about every candidate in every election you can vote for on a single page, and 2) participate in a federated civic data sharing network, which allows users to transfer their civic data to any site they want in the network, so no one website can monopolize our public election data. You can watch a 2:30 cartoon summary of these 2 aforementioned goals here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN85p5oSbb4 If any LibTech members would like to learn more, or can offer feedback on the EveryVote project, we'd be excited to hear from you. Thanks so much for your consideration, Mitch Downey EV Project Manager Twitter: @EveryVoteU <http://www.twitter.com/everyvoteu> - @EveryVoteOrg<http://www.twitter.com/everyvoteorg>
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