Here's the awesomeness…a Three Keyboard Cat Moon t-shirt!!! Go vote at Threadless so we can help make this meme explosion a reality.
This Iranian street art kinda looks like Goatse, no? If you're curious, the text inside the goat hole reads, “Where Is My Vote?”
Looks like the 4chan army is out and at the polls for Dear Leader over at Time's “World's Most Influential” voting site. moot was at #1 earlier today, but by the time I got the screenshot he was holding it down at #4 with an average rating of 73 and a whopping 248,718 votes. Update: He's back on top! Go moot go!
Politics Buzz It turns out that there’s a far superior reason for people getting out to vote on election day, and it doesn’t involve either John McCain or Barack Obama. The fact is, Americans just want their “I voted” stickers! And in what is soon to be known as the greatest fraud of the 2008 election, only some lucky voting locations got the magic stickers! One can only ask, why?!
http://www.youtube.com/videoyourvote
A project from PBS and YouTube to encourage voters to document the voting process as they experience it. This project could help support or allay the fears about vote switching on voting machines.
A new site attempts to rate the relative sexiness of Democrats vs. Republicans. [Editors Note: Hot or Not for the partisans! Much nicer design than theonlyvote.com]
The latest presidential-campaign-numbers-breakdown-site lets you play around with electoral votes. Click on any state to change the way it’s leaning. The site also gives you a look at which possible winning combinations are needed for each side to make it to the White House.
This is supposedly a leaked scene from an upcoming Simpson’s episode set to air on Nov. 2nd, that features Homer Simpson trying to vote for Obama. Of course, the machine basically forces him to vote McCain before it attempts to turn him into dough, er, Doh!
The Economist creates the “Global Electoral College” and invites the world to vote in the upcoming US election. Obama has a global landslide in the works - not sure if that will help him or hurt him with US voters.
Politics Buzz A slew of sites making it quick and easy to register online are popping up everywhere. The deadline to register to vote in the upcoming election is as early as October 4th in some states. Sites ask a few questions, and then print out the correct and completed forms to mail out. Contribute any other sites that might make the registration process easy for others.
What it would look like if the world could vote in the presidential election. Also below is a pole taken from over 23,000 people around the world currently casting their vote online. Except for the battleground nation of Azerbaijan, it's really turning out to be quite the landslide in favor of Obama.
Politics Buzz AIGA offers some good advice for election ballot designers. Hopefully this advice will be heeded and we can avoid some of the problems that have plagued our past elections. You’d think it would be obvious that confusing design and language like “Vote For Not More Than One” should be avoided, but apparently not.