#RaiseTheTech: Has social media changed elections?
Social media can provide an important snapshot, if not the whole picture
Electionline explores how social media and the web is impacting elections.
"Brian Newby, Johnson County, Kansas clerk and author of the Election Diary blog, said, “I’ve gone from thinking Twitter was essentially useless (2008) to vital, particularly as a monitoring tool."
"According to a Pew study, as of September 2013 73 percent of adults over the age of 18 who are online are on social networking sites."
"Facebook of course is the granddaddy with 71 percent of online adults having a Facebook account. Only 18 percent of online adults are on Twitter and 17 percent use Instagram."
"The U.S. Elections Assistance Commission attempts to keep track state and local elections officials on social media. Most state election administrative offices have Twitter and/or Facebook accounts and many county and city election administrators are online too, but certainly not all."
Read the full article by M. Mindy Moretti on Electionline
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