Facebook users in Washington state will through the social network to register to vote in elections. Microsoft has made the application therefor in co-operation with Facebook, developed.
Voters in the United States, has been working since 2008 online registration. This is the system MyVote in the life called. In total the thirteen states possible for voters to feel this way to sign. The new Facebook app provides the opportunity to do this through the social network to do. “The app sends the information to MyVote and the user having the Facebook environment, not to leave,” said Shane Hamlin, washington’s rise co-director for elections compared to Ars Technica.
The application, after approval, information from the Facebook profile of the user. “Our database and checks whether you are registered already and send you to MyVote, after which the personal data can adjust,” said Hamlin.
According to Hamlin users need not worry that their privacy is at stake. Facebook would only the name and date of birth of the user from the profile and forward it to MyVote. The other information that is needed to register as a voter is for Facebook not visible. “You are giving your information to us, not to Facebook,” allow Hamlin to Forbes know.
The application goes on at the earliest next week live, ‘but it can be later,” says Hamlin. With this application and hopes the state of Washington, that more people will register as a voter, but the app also has a financial advantage. It would be the state about twenty-five cents per registration care.
According to Shane Hamlin, the chances are that more states are going to make use of this application. “If it works as we expect, then Facebook and Microsoft ready to cooperate with any other state that uses online registration,” said Hamlin.