MySpace Launches Voter-Registration Plan
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 27, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) -- The youth-heavy online hangout MySpace.com is launching a voter-registration drive to engage its members in civics. In partnership with the nonpartisan group Declare Yourself, MySpace is running ads on its highly trafficked Web site and giving members tools such as a ''I Registered To Vote On MySpace'' badge to place on their personal profile pages....
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News Corp.'s MySpace is the leading online social-networking site, in which users stay connected by adding others as ''friends'' and expanding their networks by meeting friends of their friends. MySpace offers message boards, Web journals and other free features its members can use to circulate links for video and other items they like....(Jeff Berman, MySpace's senior vice president for public affairs) acknowledged MySpace was late in launching a voter-registration drive, but said he still hoped ''thousands upon thousands of MySpacers will register to vote and spread the word.''
Election Day is Nov. 7, and many states close voter registration up to a month before that.
To register, members simply go to
http://www.myspace.com/declareyourself and enter a state or ZIP code. After entering the requested information, the site generates a PDF file that can be printed and mailed to state election officials. A Spanish version also is available.
Although MySpace has a heavy youth population, about 80 percent of its 114 million registered members are old enough to vote, according to the Los Angeles-based company....
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-MySpace-Voter-Registration.html
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