The Next Step For Electronic Voting: The Xbox 360
Microsoft, in partnership with Rock the Vote, announced this morning that Xbox 360 owners will be able to “register to vote, participate in presidential polls and voice their opinions to the presidential candidates.” It will all go through Xbox LIVE. The fun starts Monday, August 25, the first day of the Democratic National Convention.
While we’re a Wii household here, I think that this is a great idea. There is a huge demographic that is most easily reached through their video game systems — and I hope that Rock the Vote approaches Sony (the makers of the PS3) and Nintendo (the makers of the Wii) with the same idea.
The real question, though, is when they’ll bring the rest of the voting experience to a video game system near you.
