Causes Acquires Votizen to Expand Its Online Activism Platform

The online petition site Causes has acquired Votizen, devoted to encouraging citizen engagement with electoral politics, the companies announced today.

The online petition site Causes has acquired Votizen, devoted to encouraging citizen engagement with electoral politics, the companies announced today.

“By joining with Causes and its nearly 200 million members, Votizen now has the ability to effectively reach every voter in America and will greatly increase our ability to surface the latent political influence that exists in our personal relationships,” Votizen’s founders said in a statement.

Votizen, launched in 2010 and led by David Binetti, Jason Putorti, and Matt Snider, sought to leverage the social graph to inform and motivate voters.

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