Facebook Asks Users to Declare 'I'm a Voter'

Screen Shot 2014-11-04 at 09.48.33For those logged into Facebook this Midterm Elections Day, at the top of many users feed is a box declaring “It’s Election Day” with tabs to declare “I’m a Voter” and for more information, directing to 2014.votinginfoproject.org.

Mother Jones’ Micah L. Sifry writes of Facebook’s past use of the tool, allowing users to declare whether they’ve voted and promote that they have to their friends:

On Election Day, political campaigns, candidates, consultants, and pollsters pay close attention to who votes and why—and so does Facebook.

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