Cell phones are changing the way people do politics: text messages organize protests in South Korea, and even tipped the scales in Spain’s 2004 election by eliciting a higher voter turnout, according to a case study presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.
 
On Sept. 22, former Virginia governor Mark Warner launched a national voter registration drive using text messaging in conjunction with Mobile Voter, a non-profit, non-partisan group trying to “facilitate the process of civic participation via mobile technology,” according to its Web site. More...

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By Heather Chou, contributing writer