Oh shit, this is genius

[rydra_wong]

Mildly terrifying in a Big Data way, but genius:

The VoteWithMe app

Compares your phone contacts with publicly available voter records and tells you which of your friends live in swing districts and might benefit from nudging to get to the polls:

Geekwire: This app shows your friends’ voting history and makes it easy to nudge them to get to the polls

It doesn't contact anyone itself, just tells you who you should try contacting and reminding.

Via Mattyglesias: One of the most effective forms of political action is to contact people who you actually know in real life.

Which I quote mainly so I can also quote this reply: If you want it to catch on, you need to say something like, “hack American politics by leveraging disruptive, closely-knit networks.”

Comments

[redbird]

I am a little skeptical of this despite having used a similar program to write to people in Massachusetts to encourage them to vote for a ballot initiative next month. Of course, part of that skepticism is that it (plausibly) couldn't guess which of the several David Walds it had an address for was the one in my email address book, but did offer me the one "Debbie Notkin" who lives in this state, who I know isn't my friend (she lives on the other coast).