Twitter: An Antidote to Election Day Voting Problems?

By Nancy Scola and Allison Fine We know. It sounds ridiculous at first. But it might not be as crazy as you think. Why not? Well, here’s what we’re thinking. We all know that American elections can be messy affairs. As longtime online organizer Jon Pincus recently noted, "voter suppression relies to a large extent on information asymmetry." That imbalance, if not corrected for, can create just enough hoops that discourage all but the most motivated among us from jumping through them on our way to voting. From voter caging to misleading fliers to faulty machinery to the long waits exacerbated by poorly trained poll workers, it's often a lack of knowing that jams up the process. And for far too long, the job of election protection has fallen largely to lawyers schooled in election law. But there's an opportunity before us right... [read full story]