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July 18, 2012 By News Staff
Facebook users in Washington state will soon have the option to register to vote using the social media platform. Using a Facebook application developed by Microsoft and supported by the state, users will be able to register to vote and announce their registration to their friends as early as next week.
"In this age of social media and more people going online for services, this is a natural way to introduce people to online registration and leverage the power of friends on Facebook to get more people registered," said Shane Hamlin, the state’s co-director of elections, reported The Seattle Times.
Washington state has had online voter registration since 2008, one of less than 20 states to offer that service, and it will be the first state to offer a Facebook method for registering to vote, Hamlin said.
The application requires the user to allow it permission to use his or her name and date of birth, and the user must provide a driver’s license or state identification card number, just as in other voter registration processes. The information collected will be given to the application and the state, not Facebook, Hamlin said.
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Some must be loving this...so much easier to stuff the ballot box. They can register from anywhere in the country, then bus them in to vote.
I guess you missed the part about needing a driver's license or state ID.
There are solid safeguards in place to prevent any type of right wing ballot stuffing...as Dave in NC espouses. This process is long overdue. Other states should get in on this also and stop denying science.
Typical response from the "left" coast. These social sites are as secure as my kitchen colander. I'm suggesting a higher level of safeguard that's all. I'm independent, not right wing. So typical of the far, far left. Assume and presume, your prejudice is showing. The voting scandals uncovered in our state in the past year have all been on the left, so get your facts first, ok?