Xbox Live users will be able to register to vote beginning Monday, August 25th. Microsoft will also provide polls and a forum to discuss the presidential candidates.
“If Xbox Live were a state, it would rank as the country’s seventh largest, giving it approximately 20 electoral votes,” [regards to its 12 million registered Xbox Live users]
– Microsoft
“Xbox is a natural partner to help us reach out to youth voters,”
“To realize our goal of registering 2 million young Americans by this fall, we need to go where young Americans are, and there’s no doubt in our minds that many are on Xbox 360 and Xbox Live.”
– Rock the Vote director, Heather Smith.
Microsoft will also have a “presence” at the Democratic and Republican conventions, which each respectively beginning on August 25th and September 1st.
