Friday Fun: Text Your Vote On!

Submitted by Holly on Fri, 07/21/2006 - 5:46am.

TxtvoterIf you do anything related to voter education and registration, then you MUST try this out. I just got an email from our friend Ben Rigby at MobileVoter, an innovative company focused on using cell phones for civic engagement. Through a new service of theirs, you can set up your own FREE voter registration campaign using SMS. From his email:

It's a free system/service that allows individuals and organizations to use texting(SMS) to conduct their own voter registration campaigns. Users can define their own text-in keywords, print out customized postcards, track respondents, and win prizes. In sum, we're giving civically minding people an accessible, effective, and fun tool to register their friends, family, and community.

Try it out at: http://www.txtvoter.org. Or, if you need to register to vote yourself, text "NTENVOTE" to 75444 and see how it works!