Washington State To Allow Voter Registration Over Facebook

An anonymous reader writes "The Associated Press reports that the state of Washington will soon have an application available on its Facebook page that will let residents register to vote. Washington and other states already allow online registration, but this is the first time it will be allowed over Facebook. The state's co-director of elections, Shane Hamlin, said, 'In this age of social media and more people going online for services, this is a natural way to introduce people to online registration and leverage the power of friends on Facebook to get more people registered.' Facebook won't have access to the State's database, and Hamlin says Facebook won't collect any of the personal information with which it interacts."

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Re:Lovely

[Anne_Nonymous]

>> I just clicked "like" on a picture of a kitten and it registered as a vote for Mitt Romney

The opposition slogan could then be "Kill a Kitten for the Big O".

I vote the way talk radio tells me to

[Anonymous Coward]

In the short term, go convince 'em to vote based on reasons or issues which *you* think are important.

I vote based upon what the Talk Radio hosts and the talking heads on Fox News tell me to do. After all, those people who make tens of millions of dollars a year by spewing half truths and lies obviously have my, the common man, best interests at heart.

We need lower taxes on the job creators! It has been working. The Bush Tax Cuts kept unemployment below 10%! Corporate profits are at record levels!

This bullshit about how my real wages and my standard of living being stagnate for decades is just Liberal bias.

The fact that I'm unemployed means that I'm just not worthy to be employed. You see, I'm only physically capable of working 50+ hours a week which just doesn't cut it anymore - especially in IT. That's why I can't get a job; I'm a wimp.

I also need to pray to Jesus harder. My faith just isn't strong enough and therefore God punishes us who don't have enough faith with no money. Being rich means you're being more Godly than thy neighbor - it says so in the Bible somewhere - Joel Osteen and Rich Warren say so!

I'm a free man in the World's greatest country! I can own a gun! I don't worry about the fact that the government can eavesdrop on all my electronic communications, that I have to be electronically strip searched to just fly within the US, and that all my financial transactions are monitored by the government because of the War on Terror, Drugs, Child Porn, etc ..... (Google OFAC about buying a car....).

Yep I'm free.

Re:Lovely

[Archangel Michael]

Because in America we have a long history of Racism that is pandered to by ONE party that continues to push the idea that certain races of people are constantly and forever discriminated against, even when we've elected a President who is not "white". This party pushes the idea that any policy that doesn't "help" one of the "minority" races is in fact "racist", and the ONLY possible reason why anyone would want such a policy is "racism", and there can be no other reason.

The assumption is that minorities are poor people, and don't have enough incentive to vote, and that we must give them "extra" incentive to take the time perform their civic duty. But if you really look at such an argument on its face, it is truly elitist and insulting to all people of all races and all classes.

I only wish that someone in public would have the guts to call them on this insulting logic!