UK: Facebook joins drive to get UK voters to polls, The Washington Post (2010)
Fighting historic lows in turnout levels, British election officials will for the first time use Facebook to encourage more people to register in the May 6 parliamentary elections. Every visitor to the site will be asked if s/he has already signed up to vote, and if not, s/he will be re-directed to the registration website. The campaign hopes to lead to the increase in the number of registered young voters, as they are among the biggest Facebook users, but traditionally hard to convince to go to vote.
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