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Google Maps the ElectionPosted on Oct 23, 2006
Google will release an election tool for its popular 3-D mapping software “Google Earth,” enabling users to view congressional districts and related campaign information.
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By J, October 25, 2006 at 11:36 am #
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The 2006 Election Edition of HotPads.com (http://elections.hotpads.com), a rental housing search site, offers similar functionality to the Google Earth Election Guide. HotPads outlines all of the congressional districts in red or blue and provides Wikipedia articles about the candidates and the races.
Both Google Earth and HotPads are mentioned in the Search Engine Watch article: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061024-105056
Report thisBy Scott Lewis, October 23, 2006 at 12:09 pm #
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This is kind of like showing your current gagged and bound victim a video of the last person you kidnapped and raped and killed.
“Here is your future, Bitch!”
Or, as Old-Lady-Bush put it to Laura;
Report this“Just lay back and think of the King.”
By Jacob, October 23, 2006 at 9:17 am #
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I also think this is a great idea. I hope there will be a link to the candidates voting records.
The diebold/republican party issue needs to be publicized, but lets not poop on googles party for their good job on this.
Report thisBy Martin Bakken Jr., October 23, 2006 at 7:42 am #
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Neat Idea, but has Google figured a way to show how many millions of votes the Republicans steal this time through electronic, no-receipt, no-recount Diebold, Sequoia and Election Systems and Software, Inc computerized voting systems? ( ES&S;was Chuck Hagel’s old company, and the reason he became U.S. Senator in a ‘stunning Republican upset’ - there have been no ‘stunning Democratic upsets’ since the Help America Vote (Right) Act was thrown together). Is it true that Tom Brokaw announced a couple of months ago on TV that the networks’ 2004 ‘unseemly haste’ to name an election winner would be cured by no more network funding of exit polling, which, since HAVA, provides such embarrassing and statistically impossible (and massive) discrepancies between exit poll responses and the computerized ‘official’ results? Britain in 2004 and Germany in 2005 had exit poll results correct to within 0.1%, just like we used to have before the last two Presidential thefts. Read all about it at http://www.blackboxvoting.org. Can Google also track the voter suppression strategies, such as Ohio Secretary of State/Chair of the Re-elect George W. Bush Campaign Ken Blackwell providing plenty of voting booths/equipment in wealthy suburbs and precious few to inner city precincts, and rejecting voter registrations forms printed out from his own website or clipped from newspapers, and only accepting registrations on official 80-pound hard stock paper from his offices? “Way to go, Kenny-Boy, You’re doing a heck of a job...” (Ooops, my apologies: Kenny-Boy was Dubya’s nickname for his biggest campaign contributor, the supposedly deceased Ken DeLay - wonder where’s he getting his mail these days…
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