Your Votes Can Now Be On Facebook!

That's right--thanks to The Future, your private ballots can become public! As the Slog reports, yesterday local youth-in-politics organization The Washington Bus launched My Ballot, a Facebook application which not only lets you pretend-vote, but also lets you see how your friends have voted (if you look to the left, you can see that I have no friends) and the results of the Facebook election so far. The application gives you a ballot based on the ZIP code you enter.

But wait, you say, Is nothing sacred? The almighty Internet already knows everything else about me!

It's okay. Like most parts of the Internet, it's only as creepy as you make it, and there's a huge red button to remind you exactly who you're sharing this information with. If it skeeves you out, your My Ballot-using friends probably won't just assume you're not voting if you don't participate (or you could always troll it). But if you're willing to give up that information, it could be an excellent jumping-off point for political discourse with people you didn't even know cared--at the very least, if your family's on Facebook, you can figure out which topics to avoid at Thanksgiving.

Oh, and if the Internet is telling the truth, Patty Murray is winning by a landslide.