Thursday, May 28th, 2009
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I just submitted a question about election reform for the Democratic gubernatorial candidates in Virginia to Battleground Virginia, an initiative from YouTube, WLJA-TV and Politico. Vote for our question (search “voter participation” to find it), then on June 3, at 8PM ET, tune in to wjla.com or ABC7-WJLA and then watch the candidates answer the most popular questions! |
Monday, April 6th, 2009
For the 2008 United States presidential election, we teamed with YouTube and PBS to launch Video Your Vote, a program that intended to create the largest library of polling place Election Day video ever in order to help make voting as accessible, reliable and secure as possible (see the NYT article). It was a giant leap for the United States election community, where we can’t even register to vote online (except in Washington and Arizona). As we’ve discussed here before (see my video chat with Princeton professor Ed Felten), in Estonia, they’re already voting on the internet.
Now Google, YouTube’s parent company, is teaming up with some heavy hitters in India to bring vital election info to the people of India with their Lok Sabha Elections Center, the type of project that is much-needed here. I picked up this story via our advisory board member Tom Rossmeissl, who saw it on TechCrunch. (more…)
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
You can’t vote online quite yet in the United States, but you sure can do lots of other fun stuff online for Election Day. We’re partnering with a ton of groups on three great projects to make sure you are as plugged in as possible on Election Day. Here’s a recap.
1) Video Your Vote is an initiative from PBS and YouTube that aims to create the largest library of polling place video ever. Whether you vote early, absentee or on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, video your vote!
2) EPWiki comes from the Center for Media and democracy, and we’re partnering with them so you can track voter suppression, voting machine problems and election day mischief on an easy-to-use wiki. You can find it easliy by clicking the “EPWiki” tab at the top of this page.
3) Twitter Vote Report is “an all-volunteer network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators have teamed up with the award-winning blog techPresident to launch this effort. The only resources contributed to this project are the participants’ time and expertise!” You can tweet each and every minute of your Election Day experience, so do it!
Still don’t know why we vote on Tuesday? Click here for the answer.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
According to a local news outlet, Your Valley West, Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer took another leap towards making Election Day results in Arizona more transparent and accountable by installing multiple webcams inside all of the State’s vote tabulation rooms.
Arizona is one of two States that currently uses state-wide online voting registration system called EZVoter. The implementation of this system makes registering to vote much more convenient, and perhaps most important, allows interoperability between the States’ various databases rendering electronic voter rolls more accurate, more up-to-date, and more manageable by poll workers and election administrators. So, if you are living in Arizona, here is your suggested Election Day itinerary: (more…)
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
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We’re proud to partner with and announce Video Your Vote, a new initiative from YouTube and PBS that tasks YOU with documenting your Election Day experience. The goal here is to create the largest library of polling place video ever, in order to make our elections as reliable, accessible and secure as possible. We can only do it with your help! (more…) |
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
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We often cite these words of Thomas Paine: “voting for representatives is the primary right by which all other rights are protected.” If Paine was around today, he might have changed it to vlogging and voting. The amount of people that watch and upload video to YouTube far outnumbers the amount of young people that participate in our democracy. On YouTube you can find topics that quite literally reflect the concerns of millions of users no matter the issue — their pocketbooks, the Iraq war, the environment, genocide, health insurance… and probably whatever else you can think of. Today YouTube’s Steve Grove (a Why Tuesday? advisory board member) announced Citizentube, his successful YouTube vlog, is spinning off a Citizentube blog. Watch the video for more info. |
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — YouTube and C-SPAN have partnered to launch a nationwide online and television broadcast initiative allowing voters to voice their views on the issues most important to them in the 2008 election. Here’s our entry — maybe it’ll end up on TV! To learn more about our Webby Award nomination, click here. |
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Last time I posted a video message to YouTubers it was the end of the summer, and we were getting ready to launch this very website. Well, it’s the dead of winter, and now, four months after our relaunch, here we are. Consider this video a progress report, and a look ahead. (more…) |
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Mitt Romney just announced the end of his bid for the Republican nomination. In today’s political climate, big money and high-paid consultants alone do not make the grade. Successful campaigns and candidates must be multi-dimensional in order to woo multi-media oriented voters.
In that vein, Romney and his staff never came to grips with what voters were looking for in a President. (more…)
Monday, February 4th, 2008
Our YouTube videos, launched before the 2006 midterm congressional elections, have been viewed 1,039,100 times as of this posting. By some standards, that’s not a ton. But I’m not gonna lie, we’re pretty pumped. We cruised by the 1 million view mark last week, an across the board record-setting week for traffic on Why Tuesday? and on our YouTube channel. If you’re not subscribed to Why Tuesday? on YouTube, join the almost 900 people who are and do it now. What are the top three viewed Why Tuesday? videos of all time? (more…)
Why Tuesday? is a non-partisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2005 to find solutions to increase voter turnout and participation in elections.
