During the presidential election they had people subscribe to you tube and post questions to the candidates. Obama had his own website at Change.gov (http://change.gov/content/home) that he used before he was elected to communicate with the U.S. citizens. In fact, he even posted a short blog and a video regarding technology, innovation, and government reform (http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/inside_the_transition_technology_innovation_and_government_reform/).Obama currently uses WhiteHouse.net as is means of communication to the people. He posts a video every week or two showing what he has been doing and allows viewers to ask him questions. This was similar to his videos on YouTube.com and change.gov during the presidential race. Many other candidates had websites that made their policies and views easily accessible to the people at any moment. Http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/ has writers post blogs several times a day to keep the people informed of what is going on in a "here and now fashion". It's clear to see that newspapers are going out of business because of the Internet phenomenon that has breached the political world. Many newspapers are simply switching to only electronic versions of their columns.
I think that the issue with a low turnout for the first digital elections could possibly be due to a lack of knowledge of older generations using the Internet. It is no secret that politicians have been target the younger crowd of people to start voting. It seems interesting that people who are most familiar with the Internet are the younger generations whereas the older generations have simply not been taught. The older generations are the tried and true voters. They are used to the paper ballots and most may not find this change favorable. Here's a good link to read more about how the election went and how Hawaii is feeling about the whole thing http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Hawaii-Holds-First-All-Digital-Election-.html.
