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Voter Guide Toolkit

I’ve put together two short screencasts about a neat election resource that I help run called “Voter Guide Toolkit.” We’re recruiting a campaign leader, so I created two short screencasts to help inform the great applicants that we’ve received so far. I think they came out pretty well, so I thought that some of my readers would also be interested in how we plan to collect and present voting information to 10 million voters. You’ need to flash to view these files, and you’ll have to click twice to start the videos.

Presenting candidate information	Collecting candidate information
(length: 2 mins)	(length: 4 mins)

e-voter may be the answer to this country’s democratic process

Keith Olbermann delivers arguably his most pointed and most powerful Special Comment yet on the ramifications of Bush’s commutation of Libby’s sentence. “In that moment, Mr. Bush, you broke that fundamental compact between yourself and the majority of this nation’s citizens — the ones who did not cast votes for you. In that moment, Mr. Bush, you ceased to be the President of the United States. In that moment, Mr. Bush, you became merely the President… of a rabid and irresponsible corner of the Republican Party.”