Using GoVoteAbsentee from Brian Moore on Vimeo.

Here’s a little step-by-step walkthrough Brian (creative director) requesting his absentee ballot!

As you may have noticed, our site is up and running with new features being added frequently. However, in order for people to use GoVoteAbsentee to request their absentee ballots, they first have to hear about the site. To this end, at 10am Monday morning, GoVoteAbsentee sent out a press release announcing ourselves to the world (or at least a couple of people sitting at news desks).

Now, we need your help! Tell your friends, coworkers, siblings, children, university administrators, dog walkers, and complete strangers about GoVoteAbsentee. Our best publicity is your positive recommendation. You can use our Share with Friends resource to get the word out!

Thanks for your help, and hopefully you will be reading about us soon!

Hot off the tail of our Trip to San Franscisco, we’re working hard to get the word out about GoVoteAbsentee. We’ve made a Facebook page and a Myspace page for sharing around (Add them, please!), but just recently we’ve completed an embeddable widget for your website or profile on the internet. We have two versions:

Javascript

This is what the Javascript widget looks like

This version is recommended as it actually gives the viewer the option to put in their zip code for a direct placement into the absentee voting process. Copy the code below, paste it onto your site, and you’re all set.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://govoteabsentee.org/js/gvaWidget.js"></script>

HTML / Image

And, this is what the HTML & Image widget looks like

Although the Javascript widget is the way to go for most people, some sites restrict Javascript on their pages (e.g. Myspace). For this, we’ve created an image & link alternative for users to use elsewhere:

<a href="http://govoteabsentee.org"><img src="http://govoteabsentee.org/images/widgetalt.gif" alt="GoVoteAbsentee.org / learn how to vote absentee!"></a>

In the future, we hope to have a Flash widget, which will work like the Javascript one but will be embeddable in places where Javascript is not (again, Myspace). Keep an eye on the Share with Friends section as we add more there. In the meantime, however, feel free to use these two embeds to share the word about voting absentee.