March 28, 2006
Txt Out The Vote
Mobile Voter, in partnership with Music for America, has won a sizeable grant to register thousands of young voters at concerts across the U.S. this summer. Justin Oberman reports on Personal Democracy Forum.
"The SMS campaign called TXTVoter will kick off at concerts throughout the U.S. in June and aims to increase voter turnout in the 2008 elections.
The campaign takes celebrity involvement in "getting the vote out" to the next level: Musicians will ask concert goers to register for the SMS service during the live show by texting a word of the musician's choosing to a short numerical code. Fans will then get a reply asking for their name and address to receive voter registration forms in the mail."
Related to SMS and US politics:
-- Mixing music and SMS to get out the vote
-- Mobile Politics USA: Stuck in First Gear
-- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign is going mobile
-- TXTmob organizes against Bush inauguration
-- Young cell phone users behind Kerry
-- Upoc's Ruckus RNC 2004 and TxtMob
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