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BBCSocial networking website Facebook has been brought in to get unregistered voters into the polling booth.
In a tie-up with the Electoral Commission, Facebook users who visit the site over the weekend will be asked if they have registered to vote.
If they say "No" they will be sent to a page linked to the Electoral Commission that lets them enter details online.
The deadline for voter registration for the 6 May general election is 20 April - later than in previous elections. The Electoral Commission estimates that 3.5 million people who were eligible to vote in England and Wales in 2001 were not registered.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8610298.stm
But will the Daily Mail still continue it's anti-Facebook hysteria over this?