Taking it to the streets

Pundits may discount the 18- to 25-year-old vote on Super Tuesday (or Super-duper Tuesday or Tsunami Tuesday or whatever you wanna call it), but MTV is banking on it.
The cable net just announced a nationwide effort to cover the story with input from 51 "Choose or Lose" Street Team citizen journalists who will be streaming live video from mobile phones at polling places, caucus sites and victory celebrations in 23 states. The feeds can be seen in real time at chooseorlose.com and will be used in hourly cutins on the cable network. They say it's the first ever live mobile-to-web broadcast.
I'm not so excited about the technology thing; I've seen way too many TMZ.com live streams these past two weeks from sidewalks in the vicinity of Britney to be impressed by this particular "first." The thing that gets me jazzed is the potential for quick, accurate documentation of any problematic polling places or trends that indicate entire groups of people being stripped of their right to vote. This may be very handy come November.