{"id":1350,"date":"2008-10-31T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2008-10-31T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:28:22","slug":"google-voter-information-tool-goes-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/31\/google-voter-information-tool-goes-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Voter Information Tool Goes Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mobilevoterinfosm.jpg\" alt=\"Mobile Voter Information from Google\" width=\"300\" height=\"439\" align=\"right\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/02\/google-formally-announces-google-voter-info-widget-map\/\">Voter Information Tool<\/a> has gone <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/voting-tools-for-volunteers-on-go.html\">mobile<\/a>. From the official Google Blog:<\/p>\n<p><em>With the U.S. elections less than a week away, voting drives are ramping up. Political parties and non-partisan groups alike are sending out volunteers to encourage citizens to vote on November 4. To make sure these volunteers have the same\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/greater-access-to-voting-information.html\" target=\"_blank\">voter info tools<\/a>\u00a0available to them on their phone as on their computer, we&#8217;ve now launched a mobile voting locator tool on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/m\/html\/elections08.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span>m.google.com\/elections<\/span>.<\/a> (Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mobile\/2008election\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to send this to your phone.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is nice to see that this tool works on new smartphones as well as on older not-so-smart phones like my ancient Nokia 3650. Good Job Google!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Voter Information Tool has gone mobile. From the official Google Blog: With the U.S. elections less than a week away, voting drives are ramping up. Political parties and non-partisan groups alike are sending out volunteers to encourage citizens to vote on November 4. To make sure these volunteers have the same\u00a0voter info tools\u00a0available to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local","category-local-mobil","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}