Mobile Voter Launches Free Text-Messaging Service to Register Young Voters

U.S. Newswire › July 19, 2006

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Mobile Voter, a non- profit nonpartisan organization specializing in mobile technology for civic participation, today announced the launch of TxtVoter - - a free, publicly available text-messaging service that enables non- profit groups and political campaigns of all types to register young voters. A number of organizations, including Voto Latino and Working Assets, are already signed up to use TxtVoter.

"TxtVoter puts democracy at the fingertips of young voters," said Grace Stanat, co-executive director of Mobile Voter. "Mobility, affinity and immediacy are a way of life for this age group. By reflecting this lifestyle, TxtVoter aims to sustain the 2004 increase in young voters and get even more to turn out in 2006." In 2004, turnout among 18 to 29 year old voters jumped 9 percentage points over 2000 levels, an increase of 4.3 million voters.

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Mobile Voter Launches Free Text-Messaging Service to Register Young Voters

"As a mobile telephone company that helped register over one million v...

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