CivicActions

Just saw this article on Personal Democracy Forum:
American Idol Cell Phone Voting Comes To Political Debates.

From the article:

Many of you may have already heard that Pat Lamarche (Green Independent Gubernatorial Candidate in Maine) has launched a major cell phone campaign around the issue of getting out the vote... At last night's debate at the University of Maine, Pat asked the audience in her closing statement to use their cell phones to vote for who they think won the debate. "Using your mobile phone" she stated, "text 'pat' to 30644." Those that did received a text message ballot back asking them to reply with the corresponding number of the candidate they thought won the debate. This is the first time an instantaneous poll has been taken using "American Idol" style voting techniques in a political campaign.

I suspect (and hope that) we'll be seeing more use of mobile technology in political campaigns like this.