After numerous articles criticized the Romney campaign’s “Orca” project as an IT meltdown, the digital director of the campaign pushed back and said the system mostly succeeded in recording votes and irregularities.
In an attempt to encourage more people to vote, Facebook is today promoting an Election Day message atop U.S. members' News Feed and asking them to click an "I'm Voting" button. The company is tracking these special status updates in real-time.
A simple letter sent by the New York Tech Meetup to President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney got the candidates to discuss their policies around startups and the technology community at large.
"Election Insights," as the destination site is called, visualizes the volume of Facebook activity involving Democratic candidates President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his veep choice, Paul Ryan.
Twitter is turning to you and the stream-of-consciousness feelings you express on the presidential candidates to concoct a political poll of a different kind.
Dubbed the Twitter Political Index, the alternative polling tool is the information network’s way of quantifing …
Stitcher, the iOS and Android radio app that is trying improve the state of non-music streaming content, has added an Election Center section to its app to keep people in the loop on the contentious 2012 U.S. elections.
Stitcher’s in-app …
There’s no doubt that social media will play an important role in the 2012 elections, just as it did in both 2008 and 2010. But as its influence grows, so do the amount of spammers using social channels to unethically …
Want to know what to expect in the New Hampshire primary this coming week?
Here’s a nicely curated, Internet-powered playlist of links that will take you step-by-step through the Republican race to date, including info on each candidate, news items, …
Google has launched a hub for keeping track of the (increasingly digital) U.S. elections.
As the country prepares for a hot presidential race later this fall, the web is flooded with news, videos and events related to our collective political …
