The 2008 presidential vote may go down in history as being the first mobile-friendly elections of all time. You might argue that it started with Barack Obama’s well-documented usage of text-messaging as a way to keep voters informed, but it has now even taken center stage at the polls. Perhaps the biggest demonstration of this is at The Twitter Vote Report, a site developed by a team of volunteer developers using Twitter, which provides a live stream of user-generated updates providing the latest on wait times and other voting conditions nationwide. Found at http://blog.twittervotereport.com/, it shows dozens of live updates that come in every minute. Reports note things like how long the wait times are, whether they’ve run out of paper ballots, and if the electronic machines are working. For instance, voters reported in Tampa that a machine was jammed, in North Carolina that McCain supporters were yelling at Obama supporters to go home, and many people reported busier than normal polls, but no lines. Full story on mocoNews.net...

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