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Prisoner's votes are currently counted based on the location of the prison, not their home residence. This dilutes the voting power of urban, minority prisoners. Miller-McCune http://bit.ly/bgshbh
Most crowdsourcing platforms let you vote ideas up or down, which usually means whether you like an idea or not. That's fine and important, but there's more to ideas than this. Other dimensions may include feasibility (i.e., it may be a great idea, but it's not very practical or would take a long long time to implement, so it's feasibility score may be low), cost, and so on. (Crowdsourcing contests tend to do this well, via the judging process.)
A new website called Give Your Vote allows British citizens to seek input for their votes on issues which impact developing countries. http://bit.ly/b5LnW0
Votetocracy allows you to vote for current bills in Congress, contact your representatives, and pool your influence. http://ow.ly/jqdU
A new proposal seeks to bypass the Electoral College and elect the President via popular vote. Without amending the constitution, it calls on states to commit all electoral votes to the candidate winning the popular vote. Information at http://www.fairvote.org/ .