A sea change of interest and acceptance has happened with state election officials interested in using social media for universal registration and even -- stop the presses! -- online voting!

The Obama administration is has started a discussion on their Change.gov site reports Nancy Scola. Launched yesterday, the health care discussion with two members of the transition team, Dr. Dora Hughes and Lauren Aronson, on a wiki on Change.gov. This certainly strikes me as more transparent and constructive than the black hole of resumes with which the site started.

There's just one problem: it's not a wiki.

The efforts to engage citizens in the Obama administration since Election Day have bounced from increasing volunteerism to throwing random ideas against a wall and hoping one sticks. We need to get focused and constructive before we look up and it's April and all we have are millions of frustrated people who are feeling left out. This election was about transforming government, that's the real change that we need.

Senator Feinstein sent a letter to the Social Security Administration on September 23rd asking for the postponement until after the election of the SSA's maintenance effort that will shut down its database for three days. Yesterday, the Senator received a letter back from the SSA refusing to change its maintenance schedule.

Enormous efforts have been made by campaigns and public interest groups to register people to vote on November 4th. According to the Election Assistance Commission more than 2 million poll workers will be working at over 200,000 polling places this election. Unfortunately, what these new voters don’t know is that just registering to vote may not ensure that they are able to vote on Election Day or that their vote will be counted.

There will be a lot going on in Pennsylvania today with the death match between Obama and Clinton coming down to the wire. A huge turnout and lots of new voters are expected which is always worrisome in large states like PA with lots of different municipalities (the Pittsburgh area has the largest number of unique municipalities in one county, Alleghany, in the country) all with their own machinery and rules. There will be a lot of commentary on who voted for whom, but there is another, smaller story worth watching, and that is what happens to the machinery tomorrow.

Al Gore just announced a new campaign to $300 million climate change campaign. It’s a very slick website called We Can Solve the Climate Crisis, or We for Short.

At the risk of being totally un-PC for We, I have some problems here (and I’m not talking about the shock of seeing the phrase, “Nobel laureate former Vice President Al Gore” — didn’t I just know him as boring Al?).

Just as people, particularly young voters, are beginning to pay attention to the presidential race, 14 states have already closed their voter registration with another 5 set to do so within the next week!

As we race into the most compact primary schedule ever and the top two candidates for the Democrats continue to dominate the polls, I’ve realized that campaigns are a lot like ball games: the key ingredient that makes them both so much fun to watch is the tiniest possibility that an underdog can win. Therefore, with the help of a number of New Hampshire-ites, I’ve designed a blueprint for victory for John Edwards that isn’t about squeezing the very last dime out of bundlers and other donors but leveraging the commerce of the 21st century: social networks. Here’s your Win Free or Die in New Hampshire Blueprint strategy courtesy of me — no charge.