MySpace to Conduct Mock Presidential Election Jan. 1-2

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 4, 2007 - 12:31pm.

Santa Monica, Calif. - News Corp.'s MySpace has announced plans to hold a mock presidential election for the millions of MySpace users residing in the U.S.

Results from the vote, to be held on Jan. 1-2, will be posted on the company's Impact channel, which currently features links to profiles of 13 presidential hopefuls.

"Iowa and New Hampshire may be selecting delegates, but the MySpace vote will be the first test of where candidates stand in the election year," said MySpace president Tom Anderson.

Before the virtual election, MySpace will also conduct straw polls of its members.

Related Links:
http://impact.myspace.com

Published in DMW Daily, April 4, 2007

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Comments

MySpace Vote

Submitted by I Actually Vote (not verified) on April 4, 2007 - 4:23pm.

Hmm... How about including information on how to actually register to vote, and encouraging them to do so? Maybe some links to sites for information about various candidates? I'd be willing to bet on the fact that 90% (if not more) of the users on MySpace don't even vote in real elections, or aren't old enough to do so. Is this "Vote" going to take the form of a typical banner ad where you have to shoot the monkey (or in this case, the candidate) in order to vote, and then you get swished off to some other site to be data-mined?

Actually, they do have a

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on April 5, 2007 - 12:18pm.

Actually, they do have a link so people can register to vote. Plus links to each candidates MySpace page. So it would seem MySpace is using a cool experiment to get its users interested in voting.
(p.s. I don't have a MySpace page, but I'm all for organizations that encourage people to get out there and vote)