{"id":2544,"date":"2012-05-04T15:10:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T15:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2012-05-04T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T15:10:11","slug":"cos-students-featured-in-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/cos-students-featured-in-article\/","title":{"rendered":"New app encourages voting through smart-phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aubrey Marks, a UCF <strong>Political Science<\/strong> student, was recently featured in an article about an app that encourages voting through\u00a0smart-phones.<\/p>\n<p>A new app gives people the ability to contact the Supervisor of Elections\u2019 office for their county, no matter where they live in Florida, to check and update their voter registration status.<\/p>\n<p>Florida citizens can download the Microsoft Tag application from their provider\u2019s application service and scan the tag. Voters can enter their county of residence and choose among the options to connect with their county\u2019s Supervisor of Elections office either by phone, email or in person.<\/p>\n<p>Almost every day, the\u00a0UCF\u00a0College Democrats can be found near the library helping students register to vote and pressing the issues with their trademark ironing board. Recently elected College Democrats President Aubrey Marks is excited by the new tool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it could really benefit students because first of all, a lot of people don\u2019t know or they don\u2019t think to update their address,\u201d Marks said. \u201cA lot of times when people are registering voters, they\u2019ll ask a potential person \u2018Are you registered to vote in your current address?\u2019 and they\u2019ll go \u2018Oh no!\u2019 Sometimes the last time someone registered was before they graduated high\u00a0school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freshman biology major Mary Figueroa<\/strong> understands the importance of students voting and has been registered since she\u2019s been able to. However, Figueroa faces a challenge similar to most students. She is registered in her home county.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs students, we\u2019re all from different counties and we\u2019re not in our right county,\u201d Figueroa said. \u201cSince I\u2019m from Polk County I\u2019m not going to drive two hours to vote. If I\u2019m here during elections then I\u2019ll just use that tag and that\u2019ll be a loteasier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralfloridafuture.com\/news\/app-encourages-voting-through-smartphones-1.2735565\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aubrey Marks, a UCF Political Science student, was recently featured in an article about an app that encourages voting through\u00a0smart-phones. A new app gives people the ability to contact the Supervisor of Elections\u2019 office for their county, no matter where they live in Florida, to check and update their voter registration status. 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