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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ef89fcd6-1599-4686-8e93-68295279cf2d/FC8FEDED-919F-4B0A-9558-C7F4B3B4FE3F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/11/citizens-media-use-social-media-to-monitor-election308.html" href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/11/citizens-media-use-social-media-to-monitor-election308.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.pbs.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/11/citizens-media-use-social-media-to-monitor-election308.html"><H2>Citizens, Media Use Social Media to Monitor Election</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/11/citizens-media-use-social-media-to-monitor-election308.html"><P>In a <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdgDGJzAJZE">YouTube video</A> uploaded on October 24, a husband and wife couple from Oregon sit at their kitchen table and fill out their mail-in voting ballots for the 2008 election. The wife explains to the camera that Oregon has had mail-in voting for "about the last 10 years," and the two walk the viewer through the entire voting process, at one point announcing that Barack Obama was their "candidate of choice."<SPAN></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/11/citizens-media-use-social-media-to-monitor-election308.html">The video was created for <A href="http://www.youtube.com/videoyourvote">Video Your Vote</A>, a joint project between <SPAN class="caps">PBS </SPAN>and YouTube that encourages citizens across the <SPAN class="caps">U.S. </SPAN>to document their own personal experiences at the voting booth by shooting and then uploading the video onto YouTube (not to be confused with <A href="http://videothevote.org/">Video the Vote</A>, a similar project). The effort is just one of many examples of citizen journalists utilizing crowdsourcing and Web 2.0 tools to monitor the voting practices -- and problems -- from an on-the-ground perspective.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FC8FEDED-919F-4B0A-9558-C7F4B3B4FE3F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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