10/28/2009 - With the Virginia general election only a week away, residents of the commonwealth looking for voting information might find one of Google's latest gadgets useful.
The 2009 Virginia Voting Information Project Google gadget, like most Google gadgets, can be scaled and embedded on any Web site. Virginia residents plug in their addresses and the Google gadget, using data provided by the Virginia Board of Elections, will give them the addresses and directions to their polling places, a list of candidates who will appear on their ballots, and contact information for their local election officials.
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The folks at the Voting Information Project, a group effort spearheaded by Google and the Pew Center on the States, praised the Virginia Board of Elections for "ensuring election information is easily distributed by lots of different channels," and rightly so.
To read the full article, "Google Gets Virginians to the Polls," visit nextgov.com.
