NewAssignment.net posts Nine Ways Citizen Journalists Can Cover The Elections tomorrow. Here are three of them:
Here are nine ways that distributive networks are working to cover Election Day.
1. At Betsy Devine’s blog you can learn more about ’snapping the leaflets,’ a project to document what propaganda voters are subject to days before the election.
‘On the last Sunday before Election Day, Republican operatives go out in force with a last-minute message to stick under windshield wipers. And mainstream media is too slow, too divided, to report on what people are being told.
But those ’secret messages’ won’t be secret if you and I take the time to make them public.’
Hey, don’t Democratic operatives ever stick flyers under windshield wipers? One assumes they’ll be made public too.
2. Video The Vote is an organized effort, using camera phones and video, to cover any mishaps voters encounter this Tuesday.
‘In 2000 and 2004, problems plagued the polls in different parts of the country: long lines, eligible voters turned away, voter intimidation, misallocation and malfunctioning of voting equipment.
Starting this election, citizen journalists–people like you and me–will document problems as they occur.’
3. VoterStory.org has a blog widget that will instantly transmit questionable incidents at the polls to voter protection organizations that will be standing by to intervene and give advice. (Note: Tom Evslin has some suspicions about Voter Story’s legitimacy. I will post any new information recieved).
NewAssignment.net posts Nine Ways Citizen Journalists Can Cover The Elections tomorrow. Here are three of them:
Here are nine ways that distributive networks are working to cover Election Day.
1. At Betsy Devine’s blog you can learn more about ’snapping the leaflets,’ a project to document what propaganda voters are subject to days before the election.
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Comments
@ 16:24
One more way to cover Election Day!
Veek the Vote 2006 (www.veekthevote.com) is a project that enables people to use the cameras in their mobile phones to express themselves and document Election Day in near real-time.
Veek The Vote represents something wholly new in the history of election coverage. Anyone with a mobile phone equipped with a camera—there are over 70 million of them in the U.S.–can send a photo or video to vote@veeker.com. No registration is required. No special software is needed.
Fifteen to sixty seconds after a photo or video is sent, it will appear in a embedded player at veekthevote.com. This player, in turn, can be taken by anyone and embedded anywhere on the web: on blogs, MySpace pages, etc. Veek the Vote generates a completely open mobile video communication network, enabling complete democratization of election coverage. We take in video from anyone, and allow anyone to display it on their website.
We’re very excited about the prospects for Veek the Vote. It empowers Americans to be more than a statistic captured by exit polls on Election Day. Whether they’re taking to the streets in protest, waiting patiently (or impatiently) in line at the polls, or stuck behind a desk, Veek the Vote 2006 lets America show and see Election Day in a way never before possible.
The more people that know about Veek the Vote, the more powerful it will be.
@ 09:38
It might be a bit late for this, there is a guide to blogging elections written by co-authors from openDemocracy and Dean for America. You can download it for free here:
http://www.demologue.com/pages/English/Resources/Resources.html