Washington to Launch Voter Registration on Facebook

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.
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"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.
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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.
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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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