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Bianca Bartz
On: Sep 30, 08
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IfTheWorldCouldVote.com (Obama Would be President)


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Those of us not living in America can’t vote for the next president of the United States, but many of us have an opinion on who should be elected. If The World Could Vote,

who would be the next president of the United States of America?

That’s exactly what a new site, IfTheWorldCouldVote.com, hopes to answer. So far 89,176 people have voted from 168 countries. Just to put the viral nature of this site into perspective, on September 10, just 19 days ago, there were only 23,000 votes. It’s clear, people care about politics, and they want to be heard.

But the founders of IfTheWorldCouldVote.com have “an insanely ambitious goal,” Hjörtur Smárason told me, “To get more people to vote on our site than voted in the last US election. That’s over 122 million people.”

So how close are they? Well, “In the US presidential election in 2004 122,267,553 people voted. 6,500,000,000 people did not.”

So far on IfTheWorldCouldVote.com, 75,337 votes have been cast for Barack Obama and 13,839 votes for John McCain. Wow. There’s a clear leader there, but they’re still short 122,178,377 votes.

“Wouldn’t it be great to see what the whole world thinks?” the Iceland-based site asks. You bet! Which is why I cast my vote, and hope you will too. It’s free, there’s no signing up, and it only takes a second.

IfTheWorldCouldVote.com is a non-profit, non-political enterprise, solely driven by the curiosity of the founders. The founders are Bragi Thor, Hjortur Smarason and Steinar Hugi. A Facebook group for the project can be found on http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16694988778 (IfTheWorldCouldVote)

Via: IfTheWorldCouldVote  




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Thanks for writing about this, Bianca :)

By: Hjortur on Sep 30, 08 | 80 Trends | 113 Comments

Off to the site I go! :-)

By: Sandra Winn on Sep 30, 08 | 335 Trends | 934 Comments

Great find, Bianca. I'm checking it out!!

By: Pearl on Sep 30, 08 | 610 Trends | 105 Comments

Hjörtur, I think this is amazing... I hope everyone takes the 5 seconds to cast their vote. Great work!

By: Bianca Bartz on Oct 1, 08 | 3,465 Trends | 1,340 Comments

Wow, now 355,996 (87.6% for Obama) people have voted! This was such a great idea Hjörtur!!

By: Bianca Bartz on Oct 22, 08 | 3,465 Trends | 1,340 Comments

We've now got more voters than the total population of my country! That's pretty cool :) And I've got some great stories about who people are actively spreading the word for us, like this 70 year old guy in Australia who's got us thousands of votes from Australia and a few from Vanuatu as well (you can read about it on my blog). Thanks for participating and writing about, Bianca :)

By: Hjortur on Oct 22, 08 | 80 Trends | 113 Comments

484,461 people from 200 countries have voted so far .. getting facebook behind it now, should be a big boost in the next few days.

By: farid vaziri on Oct 27, 08 | 0 Trends | 1 Comments



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