3 posts tagged “obamatravel.org”
ObamaTravel was mentioned in Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" issue featuring President-Elect Obama. Thanks to Sander for his hard work and to my friend and favorite artist, Daniel Kelly, for helping Sander get to Montana. Nice of Time to post Sander's photo on page 44 in the issue commemmorating the journey of our 44th President (coincidence, you say? I think not!).
Tuesday could not come any sooner for me - this is definitely an unfortunate weekend for daylight savings time to roll around! Because I will be sequestered in CREDO Mobile's Election Day bunker from sunup to sundown on Tuesday, I went to SF City Hall to vote early yesterday. Needless to say, the press was all over it!:
Worried your vote won't count? Bring a video camera
Alex Wise -- the San Francisco dude behind the swing state-transport group ObamaTravel -- checked in Saturday to say that folks were waiting 20 minutes in the rain to vote at San Francisco's City Hall when there seemed like there was plenty of room inside. What if people got discouraged and left?
Among those people waiting in the rain to vote: Wise. "And I'm such a shmo, I didn't bring an umbrella."
Worried that there are going to be major problems at the polls on Election Day? Get in line. Literally and figuratively.
There's something you can do other than handrub or wait in the rain: Bring a video camera/phone. See something untoward going down? Fire up your camera. See somebody getting the shaft/runaround when they're trying to check in/cast a ballot? Interview them, then post it to Videothevote.org.
Alex knows about Video the Vote. So why didn't you bring your camera? "I would have," he said. "But I just gave my video camera to my sister who is going to Nevada to Video the Vote." D'oh!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=32222
My apologies to all of my devoted readers for being so slack with the updates the past couple of months. I won't waste your time with excuses of fatherhood and election-oriented activities (I have posted some cute new baby photos!), but, instead will catch-you up on my current projects.
If you haven't checked out ObamaTravel.org, it has been more successful than we could have hoped. There are nearly 250 with profiles on the site and a good chunk of them have received the resources they needed to get to swing states and make a difference for the election. A huge "THANK YOU" to Kevin, Kelly and RIchard who donated their valuable time to help make the site a reality.
I have also been working for CREDO Mobile (part of Working Assets) on two election projects: One, is running CREDO's Election Day immediate response text message network. You can sign up to be on alert to help protect the election here: http://act.credoaction.com/election/
The other project I've been involved with has been creating a mobile version of FiveThirtyEight.com, the polling site founded by Nate Silver. To check out the mobile 538 site, check out: http://credomobile.com/538. And to sign up for daily text alerts about polling data, simply text keyword 538 to shortcode 30644.
I promise to resume writing regularly after the election. In the meantime, let's keep our fingers crossed!
