8 ways technology has shaped the ’08 elections

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Technology has played a particularly prominent role in the 2008 elections — and it isn’t just the typical silliness over whether a candidate really claimed to have invented a key piece of technology. Throughout the year we’ve seen technological advances used both for good, such as using Short Message Service to announce a vice presidential pick, and for bad, such as hacking into another vice presidential pick’s private e-mail account. In this story, we’ll take a look at the eight techiest moments of the 2008 presidential race, including YouTube debates, viral videos and e-voting controversies. (For pictures of these events, view a [a href=”http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2008/101508-tech-elections.html?nwwpkg=nws”slideshow

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