Proposed Tagging Framework for Twitter Campaign

Jon Pincus’ proposes a framework on his Voter Suppression Wiki for using hashtags for using Twitter on Election Day.  Would love to hear what folks think about this and how to make it workable in real-time on the ground:

To be used for Twitter hashtags, photos, videos, blog posts, abbreviations in SMSs, and t-shirts.

Location

The location the rest of the message refers to

[state] + [first four letters of the county] + [precinct, if known]

So, in downtown Cleveland, for example, the hashtag would be #OHCuya07

Questions:

1) how to encode state-wide information?
2) special case college campuses?

Incident type

Use one of these codes when reporting information about something happening at a location.

vmm — voting machine malfunction
wait — current waiting time
hava — accessibility (Help America Vote Act) issue
extend — polling times extended
help — help wanted (typically for investigation)
??? — fraudulent registrations

Alert type

Use one of these codes when sending out an alert.

media — a story!
blog — something for the bloggers
gtwo — short for “get the word out”, a message that needs to go out

Party information

If the incident applies to voters of a particular party, or the alert is intended for supporters of a particular party

dem
rep
green
lib
const
…

Source

When relaying information from a trusted source. These should be used very sparingly but could be useful as backup channels for emergencies.

sos — Secretary of State.
camp — a campaign
rov — registrar of voters