Pressure Your Friends Into Voting With This Facebook App

Need some help making sure your friends and family vote this Election Day? Never fear -- Vote With Friends, a new Facebook app, is here to help.

Vote With Friends, from Internet advocacy organization Fight for the Future, lets users check to see if their Facebook friends are registered to vote, whether they've pledged to do so and whether they actually go and vote.

The idea? Take Facebook's "Poke" concept, and use it to bring a little positive peer pressure into democratic participation

"We think [voting] is essential to what makes a vibrant democracy," said Tiffiniy Cheng, co-founder and co-director of Fight for the Future. "Especially in the United States, we're seeing that w…
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