Arbitration & Mediation

Make Sure Your Vote Counts with NPR-Twitter Vote Monitor Project

By Victoria Pynchon

Help NPR Identify Voting Problems:  Entire NPR Post Below

If you have any voting problems, NPR wants to hear about them. As part of Twitter Vote Report – a project born out of a collaboration of volunteer software developers, bloggers and the NPR social media desk – we'll be monitoring voter irregularities, everything from long waits and broken voting machines to polling places with insufficient ballots.

An interactive map will track election problems reported by voters. The map will display eyewitness reports as they come in, so most of them will not be verified by NPR. As reporters look into some of them, you'll find stories in our voting problems page.

So, as you head out to vote, here's how to participate:

Text: Send a text message to 66937. Begin the message with the phrase #votereport, include your zip code and a very brief description of the problem.

Twitter: Send a tweet with the phrase #votereport making sure to include your zip and description.

iPhone and Google Phone: Download the iPhone app from the Education section of the iPhone app store. For the Google Phone go to the Android Market and search for "Vote Report."

YouTube:In conjunction with PBS and YouTube's Video Your Vote project, you can upload a video to report any problems you experience.

Also, if you need more detailed instructions, visit Twitter's help page and the project's homepage, where you will find a short video tutorial and lengthier explanation on how these tools are being used.

Full post as published by Settle It Now Negotiation Blog on October 31, 2008 (boomark / email).