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What is your congressman or senator doing? Keep tabs on them via your mobile phone.

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Visible Vote is a relatively new service that allows you to interact with your legislators via your mobile phone. You can keep tabs on how they vote on particular bills. The service is free and is available on the Blackberry, Android, and iPhone platforms. It also works on windows and Mac PCs.

From the Visible Vote web page:

Why should your voice be heard only on Election Day? Why not let your position be heard by your representatives each and every time there is a measure to be voted on?

Visible Vote allows you to do just that. It is the first and only application to allow you to cast your virtual vote and then notify your representatives of your position weekly. Visible Vote also monitors how often your Congressmen vote in alignment with you and the people they represent.

Visible Vote is non-partisan and unbiased service that brings greater transparency and accountability to our representative form of government. Discover the most technologically powerful way to advise, communicate and track your legislators today.

If this service works as described it could be a good use of mobile technology. It will be interesting to see what role mobile phones will play in the next major election. More and more politicians are using the Internet and social networking to assist with their campaigns.