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Image via CrunchBase 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 chea...