Google Get Out the Vote Gadgets
First up is Google’s US Voter Info site, which is just a version of Google Maps with integrated voter information. Users can enter their addresses in order to find their designated polling place, and even get directions right from the map. If it can’t find a polling location for your address (which, curiously, it could not for mine smack dab in the middle of Chicago), it will suggest getting an absentee ballot for your state with a link directly to where you can find obtain one. It’s really quite handy if you’re not in the mood to go digging around website after website in order to find out where to go on November 4.
Even more useful is a US Voter Info Gadget that can be embedded into any third-party website or blog. The module is just a shrunken-down version of the above map, and again allows you to enter your address in order to find the closest voting location.
The latter didn’t work for him but it found my rural Georgia voting place. Here’s the Official Google Blog post about the services.
3 Responses to “Google Get Out the Vote Gadgets”
I want to see Census districts post-election (or ZIP code areas, the other “paper” districts that could be used to form larger Congressional districts in a sensible matter) that will be colored red, blue, or sliding-scale-purple after the election to show the results in each such district. That would be better than a county map.
Anticipate This (even more blue for 2008).
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2006/
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2006/
(Sorry, no 2006 cartograms by Ms. Fabrikant, but perhaps she'll “do” 2008 for us.)
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~sara/html/mapping/ele…
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