Twitter, hashtags, electoral fraud and the US Presidential election

If only I could find a way to work chocolate into this story too… but TechnoSailor.com has a concise round-up of how Twitter and hashtags are being used as the US Presidential election draws to a close.

The basic idea is to get in reports very quickly from around the country of any problems with / abuses of the voting process on Tuesday. This is a task very well suited to Twitter as people can quickly post updates from their mobiles whilst at the polling venues, and to hashtags which provide an easy way to pull the information together.