YouTube, PBS Join Together to Help Monitor Polling

YouTube and PBS have gotten together and announced an initiative that will see YouTubers share their voting experiences and upload them to the site.

Designed to “shed light on voting in America and show democracy in action,” Video Your Vote sets out to educate voters on the entire process and a wide array of issues associated with voting in America.

While this will no doubt be interesting for the rest of the world watching the election unfold, YouTube claims Video Your Vote will capture “pivotal moments in this historic election” as they happen. That may very well be true, however, we’re willing to bet it’ll be difficult to spot the pivotal moments among the scours of videos being uploaded every minute of November 4. In an attempt to combat this problem and select the cream of the crop (to be shown along with PBS’s coverage of the election), YouTube has asked users to who witness or encounter anything problematic at the polls that is hindering the voting process, to tag their clips with "pollproblem."

More interesting than viewing user-uploaded footage from the polling stations is the fact that The Video Your Vote channel will also serve as one-stop-shop to view exclusive videos from voter registration experts, election reform activists, and state officials, as well as video footage from the PBS archives for a historical look at voting through the years. You can also see exclusive footage produced by the online team at the News Hour with Jim Lehrer.

Click here to visit Video Your Vote.