- The Hotline has two very hot documents from the Republican database-driven turnout machine, one describing their (apparently very successful) absentee ballot program in Michigan and the other listing sample voter contact numbers by state and district.
- Burt Edwards has pointed out this excellent Flash map of recent polls in particular congressional races, with a nice drill-down to details about the district and the surveys.
- Writing in Personal Democracy Forum, Micah L. Sifry looks at a bunch of new political applications, including election day polling problem-reporting mechanisms and election-related citizen journalism projects.
- Using Crowdsourcing to Get Out the Vote. The Bivings Report examines the use of friend-to-friend-to-friend messages to spur voters to the polls.
– cpd