About Us
VoteSpin is a social experiment in online voting and candidate discussions targeting the 2008 Presidential election race. This site encourages dialog and debate amongst voters (both young and old) with the hope of restoring true democracy again.
Al Gore, the former U.S. Vice President, states it best in his latest The Assault On Reason book.
"The easy accessibility individuals have to publish ideas on the Internet has led to the emergence of a new meritocracy of ideas that is similar in some ways to the public forum that existed during the time of America's founding. The Internet has several structural characteristics that make it particularly useful and powerful as a tool for reinvigorating representative democracy."
"The democratization of knowledge by the print medium brought Enlightenment. Now, broadband interconnection is supporting decentralized processes that reinvigorate democracy. We can see it happening before our eyes: As a society, we are getting smarter. Networked democracy is taking hold. You can feel it."
VoteSpin is a service of GetVocal, inc.