The latest get-out-the-vote tool is a new app lets Oregonians see if their Facebook friends have voted yet. If they haven't, the app lets the user badger them until they do.
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The app is called Did They Vote. It mines your friends' Facebook data and cross-references that with public lists of who's turned in a ballot so far. If the app finds that some of your friends haven't voted, it lets you send them a message urging them to get on with it.
Sarah Duff is a volunteer with the campaign to legalize recreational marijuana in Oregon. She has messaged more than a dozen of her Facebook friends.
"I've actually had a really positive reaction,” Duff said. “There's so many of them that hadn't voted that were probably going to forget, some of them said, and they were appreciative that I was able to reach out to them like that."
The app so far only works for Oregon voters. It was developed by a coalition of left-leaning political groups. But the app can't tell how anyone voted, as the Did They Vote website takes pains to point out.
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