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From the Ted Talk by Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
Unscramble the Blue Letters
I'll satrt here. Last November there was a presidential elotiecn. You probably read something about it in the pepras. And there was some concern that in some parts of the cotruny there might be voter suppression. And so a plan came up to video the vote. And the idea was that individual citizens with ponehs capable of taking photos or making video would dumnocet their polling places, on the lookout for any kind of voter suppression techniques, and would ulopad this to a central place. And that this would operate as a kind of citizen observation — that citizens would not be there just to cast individual votes, but also to help ensure the sanctity of the vote overall.
Open Cloze
I'll _____ here. Last November there was a presidential ________. You probably read something about it in the ______. And there was some concern that in some parts of the _______ there might be voter suppression. And so a plan came up to video the vote. And the idea was that individual citizens with ______ capable of taking photos or making video would ________ their polling places, on the lookout for any kind of voter suppression techniques, and would ______ this to a central place. And that this would operate as a kind of citizen observation — that citizens would not be there just to cast individual votes, but also to help ensure the sanctity of the vote overall.
Solution
- upload
- papers
- election
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- phones
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Original Text
I'll start here. Last November there was a presidential election. You probably read something about it in the papers. And there was some concern that in some parts of the country there might be voter suppression. And so a plan came up to video the vote. And the idea was that individual citizens with phones capable of taking photos or making video would document their polling places, on the lookout for any kind of voter suppression techniques, and would upload this to a central place. And that this would operate as a kind of citizen observation — that citizens would not be there just to cast individual votes, but also to help ensure the sanctity of the vote overall.
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