On the quiet archivist that lurks inside us all.
The New York Times, Design Observer, and the AIGA are collecting and archiving amateur photographs of the American voting process. The Polling Place Photo Project aims to have photographs of every polling place in the country, all of them available under the Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives license.
Posting photographs is easy: Just choose a file and enter some information about where you voted. You can browse the submitted photographs, and search by various characteristics. The photographs all show roughly the same things, but none of them show exactly the same things.
Little old ladies checking people’s names.
So many signs.
In New York they use levers, in San Francisco they use paper ballots.
Finished voters get stickers.
The American flag is everywhere.
Snowmen like Obama.
And then there’s Flat Stanley.
My contribution is a little out of focus, but it’s been that kind of day.
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