Show HN: Get Your Friends To Vote On Election Day

http://pleasevotetoday.com/

by gailees • 14 years ago

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pleasevotetoday.com

rjvir• 14 years ago

Why is this specific to Obama - I'm pretty sure they are having the same problem across the board.

chaselee4• 14 years ago

The op is probably an Obama lover.

gailees7• 14 years ago

A majority of the young vote tends to lean towards Obama; this app mainly targets people who frequently use text messaging for communication aka young people.

chaselee4• 14 years ago

All Obama needs to do is read this on how to win an election, and he should be okay...http://mises.org/daily/5036

gailees7• 14 years ago

Interesting read; not sure how much it'd help the POTUS...

chaselee4• 14 years ago

It wouldn't =D

duiker101• 14 years ago

So, you want me to give you their phone number without their consent? uhm...no.

gailees7• 14 years ago

You can text them yourself; can you not?

All the app does is send the numbers through a twilio script on election day that will shoot them a message: "Please Vote Today!"

amitvaria• 14 years ago

True - but you have to understand the distrust people have with supplying a website with information like other people's phone numbers. What happens to the numbers after Tuesday? Will the data be used for anything else? Will the message include any additional advertising?

I'm sure you're doing this with the best of intentions, and commend you for that. But you have to understand that healthy skepticism on the internet is necessary to protect yourself.

cabogdan• 14 years ago

Pretty simple idea, simplicity sells.

mtgx• 14 years ago

What is the message they are getting though? Is it a message that asks them to go vote, or one that says to go vote for Obama?

chaselee4• 14 years ago

It just says "Please Vote Today"

gailees7• 14 years ago

"Please Vote Today!"

gailees7• 14 years ago

We just want to get young people out to vote; we think this may be one of the most effective measures at this point.

chriwend• 14 years ago

Better than robo-calls.

samarudge• 14 years ago

We launched a similar sort of thing yesterday, taking advantage of our community we're sending people free stickers if they take a picture of themselves at a polling place or with their ballot papers. http://dft.ba/vote

This idea seems pretty cool, could you not just add an entry to peoples calendars (Might reduce the number of people you could influence to just smartphone users, but I would imagine most people would have smartphones. Guessing it's using Twilio?

gailees7• 14 years ago

Yup. Twilio. We think texting is by far the most powerful way to actually get people out to vote.

I worked a lot at the beginning of the semester on getting my friends registered to vote; now, I really just want to see them get out there and actually vote :)

love your site, BTW!

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