Your Revolution: Voter Registration Straight from Facebook
April 24, 2008
The revolution is officially here. This evening, I got a Facebook message from Brett Horvath — a political genius I worked with on Deb Eddy’s campaign for the state legislature. Brett and his friends have built a super-sweet application that allows you to register to vote right from Facebook and then see which of your friends aren’t registered and sign them up.
The application is called Your Revolution, and you can find out more about it here. Here’s a bit about the group behind it:
Your Revolution is an independent, non-partisan group of students across five states. We’re a people-powered movement that brings students together for a common goal; making it as easy as possible to participate in democracy. We run entirely on donations, and we could really use your support. If students across the country could register to vote instantly, and invite their unregistered friends using social networks, that’s a game changer. Not for one party over another, but to enable the student movement in way that hasn’t happened in a long time.
wait…it lets you register other people to vote? Im confused.
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I tried it out. If you live in Washington State or Arizona you can use the application to instantly register to vote from Facebook. It also generates a list of your friends that aren’t registered to vote and allows you to invite them to register instantly on Facebook.