This Iranian street art kinda looks like Goatse, no? If you're curious, the text inside the goat hole reads, “Where Is My Vote?”

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1. Our Mysterious Street Artist On the Streets of Tehran Strikes Again
2. More of her Work
3. Looks Like Goatse to Me
4. Related: Something Awful Users Goatse #iranelection

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!

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1. Vote For The Time100
2. moot’s Entry
3. Christopher Poole aka moot on BuzzFeed

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?!

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1. “I Voted” and…Didn’t Even Get a Sticker
2. No “I Voted” Stickers? No Problem
3. “I Voted” Stickers Cause Sticky Situation
4. Where Are All The “I Voted” Stickers?
5. Which Jurisdiction Has the Best ‘I Voted’ Stickers?
6. Voted? Sorry, no sticker for you
7. What’s with everyone talking about getting “I voted” stickers?
8. “I Voted” stickers = Sexy!

Link: 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.

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Link: http://www.sexiestparty.com/

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 ]

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Link: http://www.270towin.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.

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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.

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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.

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1. If the world could vote?

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.

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The Best Links:

1. Ballot Design Problems and Solutions (Interactive Feature)
2. NY Times Blog Post from AIGA’s Richard Grefé and Jessica Friedman Hewitt
3. Top 10 Election Design Guidelines
4. AIGA’s Design for Democracy Initiative