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Washington State will enable voter registration via Facebook
by Cyrus Farivar

Ars Technica
July 17, 2012

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/07/washington-residents-to-be-able-to-register-to-vote-via-facebook/

The State of Washington will become the first state in the
nation to offer voter registration via Facebook. In 2008, the
Pacific Northwest state became just the second in the union to
offer online registration. Today, Washington and 12 other
states offer online voter registration. This week, a new
Facebook app created by Microsoft (a Washington company,
naturally) will provide a new interface to let voters access
the on-line MyVote system that they already use, to pull their
name and date of birth from their Facebook profile. After
that, it operates exactly as it does if they're not in
Facebook. Washington hopes to make it as easy as possible for
voters to register, and online registration is not only more
efficient for voters, but it's cheaper, too.

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