Links of interest for Integrated Voter Engagement

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1. » FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: A Word on Voter Files
   Many of you may know what a voter file is - it's the database of registered voters in a given state/district to which campaigns buy access.
2. » PolicyMap. Good Data. Smart Decisions.
   Google-like map, block group level census themes and much more
3. » Race Equity Project
   Census 2010 block group data
4. » N2Y3 Mashup Challenge Project Gallery
5. » COOL WEB 2.0 APPS FOR EVERYONE
6. » Directory of Office 2.0 Applications and Services
7. » Google Earth Outreach - Home
   Grant Program for Google Earth Pro
8. » Free Geography Tools -- Map Window GIS Tutorial
   free GIS software
9. » President's Budget FY 2009 and Iraq War: State Impact | National Priorities Project
10. » Southern Regional Council
    Souther States Legislative Review- State and Regional Trends in Voting Policy and Barriers to Civic Participation in Six Southern States 2006 and 2007
11. » Google Makes it Easy to Create Your Own Google Earth Layers | Compiler from Wired.com
12. » Open Left:: Fixing the Broken Market for Primary Challenges
    The second important consequences is that outside grups are moving resources away from inefficient advocacy and towards the electoral process. This will create a virtuous cycle of increased competitiveness within the party, increased responsiveness to con
13. » Voter Privacy Is Gone -- Get Over It | Threat Level from Wired.com
    The article examines a voter registration data broker named Aristotle, which buys voter registration lists from counties and states. It then combines that information with highly personal and detailed information about voters that it mines from various ot
14. » Dems Get New Tools, New Talent
15. » Where the youth vote is: MySpace, Facebook - Los Angeles Times
    But when you begin to receive a steady stream of information about the developing political preferences of dozens of people you actually like or respect or both, you can feel yourself receiving some kind of signal -- maybe even an important one -- that yo
16. » Campaign tidbit:Field demonstrates its value
17. » FairVote2020: Estimated Latino 18+ citizens (2006) by tract
18. » Open Left:: Drinking Liberally Shot of Truth: 52 Weeks
    social capital GOTV
19. » Congressional Management Foundation - Communicating with Congress Conference
    there is a lot of information here, follow the links to various reports for a lot of detail on how the 'net is changing communication with congress.
20. » Volunteering: for pay and/or for community
21. » CiviCRM | CiviCRM