Registering to Vote Thru Xbox Live is a Snap, Writes Columnist

September 22, 2008

Last month GamePolitics reported that Microsoft had partnered with Rock the Vote to enable voter registration through Xbox Live.

Game columnist Larry Curtis of the Deseret News reports that he used XBL to get registered and found the process to be painless:

I decided to try it and see how easy it is [to register] and it turns out to be extremely easy. There is a promotional box that is clicked with the regular game controller and then a couple of more clicks and it sends me an e-mail with a voter registration card and gives the user an "I registered" icon to use on their gamer profile if I choose.

Since I live here in Utah where my vote doesn't matter in the slightest (sorry to be cynical but Utah is going McCain's way, no doubt about it) I may not have otherwise registered this year but when it really is that easy, well, how can I not be a better citizen?

...Far more amusing was the Halo-themed outfit "Red vs. Blue" making an effective video about how not voting, or getting chocolate milk when you should be voting, can bring disaster.

 

GP: The Red vs. Blue video mentioned by Curtis can be seen at left.

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Re: Registering to Vote Thru Xbox Live is a Snap, Writes

If you are going to just vote for a party and not for a person and the issues at hand, dont bother voting at all.  We only want people voting that know what is going on.  So don't vote unless you stand behind at least 40% of what the candidate is standing for on the different issues.

1. Economics
2. International Affairs (and war)
3. Energy Plan (aka who is cutting out the most oil pretty much since it is part of what is crippling our economy)
4. Who ISNT going to bail out companies, since that only makes things worse in the long run
5. And maybe most importantly, who LEAST in bed with lobbyist, since they are disrupting the government from doing their J-O-B-S.

Other things to consider:
For Palin-
Were dinosaurs ever living creatures on this Earth? (The Matt Damon Question)
Did you seriously try to ban books from a library? (including Huck fin and harry potter)
Shouldn't you be parenting your children who need you right now instead of running for VP?

For McCain-
Why was it that you stayed as a POW, because wouldn't leaving and rallying up people have been more useful for the other POWs?
Why did you cheat on and divorce your wife when she was dedicated to you?
What is your energy plan, verbatim over the next 10 years on percent of energy coming from what resources? (IE 40% oil, 20% nuclear, 20% coal, 10% solar, 10% wind), and would you put that in writing?

For Obama-
What is your energy plan, verbatim over the next 10 years on percent of energy coming from what resources? (IE 40% oil, 20% nuclear, 20% coal, 10% solar, 10% wind), and would you put that in writing?
Is a universal health care better for everyone as a whole, or just the lower class, and how?
What are you going to do to help the people manage their money at these pressing times with high gas prices, falling house values, and economic recession?
What type of investigation are you going to do to find out what happened during the Bush era to find out what exactly happened to help you do your job better, and what type of punishments are you willing to put on people for making choices not based on what is best for our country and it's people?

For Biden-
Could you respond to your past comments about Obama saying he isnt right for the job?
Please talk about how our government is corrupt, how lobbyist play too big of a role, and how you are going to aid in changing that.
In your opinion what is the worst and greatest things, 3 each, that the Bush administration did for the country and it's people?
Do you believe our education system may need a little reworking after not being changes in so many years, and what changes would you make?
Why not reduce oil use by 60% by 2020, and 40% by 2015?

Those are my questions at least...  I am almost equally against and for both presidential canidates, but I think Palin is a nut case, which is why she has the least number of questions...

Re: Registering to Vote Thru Xbox Live is a Snap, Writes

If you're so lazy and disinterested in the political process that you need your game console to do most of it for you then maybe you shouldn't be voting.

Re: Registering to Vote Thru Xbox Live is a Snap, Writes

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm just lazy and disinterested in re-registering.   For years I've been driving a county away to vote where I last registered.  This sounds easy and quick enough that I can save myself that drive every two years.

Re: Registering to Vote Thru Xbox Live is a Snap, Writes

Remember kids, you can't actually vote through Xbox Live. Yeah, that's right, you gotta move down the road to a polling station.

~You Could Be Mine, But You're Way Out Of Line..~

~You Could Be Mine, But You're Way Out Of Line..~

Re: Registering to Vote Thru Xbox Live is a Snap, Writes

I'm still thinking that my preminition of complete chaos with registering through XBox live might come true as its the first year they are doing it and things might go kablewkey.  xD

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