Around the web

• Micah L. Sifry argues that the precision science applied this year to identifying, persuading and motivating potential voters will be remembered as a decisive factor in this campaign, and as it is a practice largely conducted behind the closed doors of campaign offices, its consequences for democracy are not well understood.

• The campaign has given an online voice to self-described Mormon Democrats.

• On election day, both campaigns are running online advertising on the front pages of websites, especially news websites. Both the Obama campaign and the conservative-leaning American Future Fund were running ads on the front page of Youtube. As for swing state news sites, Obama was running ads on the sites of the Columbus Dispatch, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Tampa Bay Times among others, while Romney was running ads on sites of the Union Leader and Philadalphia Inquirer.

• In some online ads and e-mails to supporters, the Obama campaign urged them "stop looking at cats online and go vote."

• A Facebook page lets Obama supporters create their own Obama Hope poster avatar, while the Obama campaign itself was encouraging supporters to share an image with an arrow pointing to the avatar with the message "This Person's Got His Back."

• The Jersey Journal, Buzzfeed and Politico reported on various problems associated with New Jersey's plan to expand e-mail voting to victims of Hurricane Sandy.

• The Election Protection Coalition's 866-OUR-VOTE hotline plans to make a special effort to provide help to Sandy-affected voters.

• Salon reported that uncertified, experimental software patches have been installed on voting machines in 39 Ohio counties.

• Democrats are asking the FBI to probe robocalls allegedly from Rep. Jeff Flake's (R-Ariz.) campaign that told registered Democrats to vote at the wrong polling location.

• The Daily Beast launched havingtroublevoting.com to report and map election problems.

• Cultivated Wit and Fight for the Future have created yourexcusesucks.com, debunking arguments against voting one at a time.

• The Vote for Stuff effort, launched by Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, is back with one last video that includes suggestions on issues to vote on submitted via video and Facebook.

• Two thirds of young people are likely to vote, according to a survey.

• While an ActBlue moneybomb for Illinois U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Duckworth sought to raise $250,000, Freedomworks created a website tammyfollows.com/ claiming that she would "follow the liberal flock in Washington."

• The Forward profiled the National Jewish Democratic Council, the group behind a Barbra Streisand video supporting Obama and an online "Jewish voter test."

• JTA reported on a fake pro-Obama message purporting to be from the Department of Public Diplomacy at Israel's embassy in Washington. The text from the e-mail seems to stem from a piece written by a Democratic pro-Israel activist on a Jewish news site in January, who told JTA: "I too have received the chain emails, and I've repeatedly replied by saying I wrote it, not the Embassy. Here's what happened. After it was published, it went viral. Then, somewhere along the way, my name was deleted and the headline was changed to Every Jew Should Read This. It kept going around and around for months. Then, a few weeks ago, I started getting the same email, but now someone along the way added the Israeli Embassy. I have no idea who. "

• Obama fundraiser Rufus Gifford promised supporters he was saying goodbye to their inbox.

• The Huffington Post reported on how NASA astronauts aboard the ISS can vote from space.

• Buzzfeed went inside Intrade's Political Market.

• Nate Silver has spawned a parody account that tweets things like "I carved tonight's projection on a sapling deep in the Rocky Mountains. He who finds it wins Colorado." There is also a website that asks whether Nate Silver is a witch.

• The Forward profiled former White House videographer Arun Chaudhary.

• The AP has warned its staff to be careful what they tweet tonight.

• Search Engine Land looked at Yahoo's plans to include election returns in search results.

• Gordon Crovitz wrote for the WSJ about how the campaigns have been "hypertargeting" voters using cookies.

• Dan Gillmor weighs Obama versus Romney on their open Internet records.

• Farhad Manjoo writes, "if you care about the tech industry, vote for Obama."

• Rep. Michael Honda (D-Calif.) argued in an op-ed that Silicon Valley should support Obama.

• ICYMI: PopVox gets a Washington Post shout-out also had an overview of the candidates' stances on technology issues, while Nathan Hurt, a New York entrepreneur, wrote a blog post that urges, "don't re-elect SOPA supporters on Tuesday."

• The Electronic Frontier Foundation urges voting no on California's Proposition 35 which calls for new restrictions on registered sex offenders, such as that they provide a list of all Internet service providers they use and a list of all their online accounts, because it would restrict online speech. The proposition has the backing of former Facebook executive Chris Kelly.

• The Washington Post reported how Americans for Prosperity helped to fortify a "loosely organized Internet campaign" against three members of the Florida Supreme Court.

• At least 780,688 people registered to vote online in California.

• Bing Elections, which has been advertised on TV in the past couple of days, has a feature letting users adjust their news based on a partisan point of view.

• Garance Franke-Ruta recently outined how to tweet responsibly during a breaking-news event.

• A Change.org petition asking the New York MTA to institute shuttle service to replace the two Brooklyn subway lines still suspended due to Hurricane Sandy has attracted over 2,600 supporters.

  Your First POST editor, no stranger to the G line, sez: In the meantime, the B61 runs from Prospect Park to near Jay Street-Metrotech, and the B62 runs from there over Newtown Creek and into Queens. Also, how is a non-functioning G train not business as usual?

• Pew found there was more news interest in Hurricane Sandy than in the election last week.

• Slate wondered whether Occupy Wall Street's Sandy relief effort was outperforming the Red Cross.

• The finalists for the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors' Challenge have been announced.

• A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to reveal more information about an initiative allowing it to extend its ability to wiretap virtually all forms of electronic communications, Wired reported.

• Intelligence spending by the U.S. has fallen for a second year in a row.

• Cyrus Farivar reviewed how e-voting has been working around the globe.

• Both Quartz and the New York Times wrote about the FTC's consideration of charges against Google.

• Facebook has instituted a new privacy tutorial in response to pressure from Irish authorities.

• Twitter has updated its policy for how it displays tweets removed for copyright reasons.

• The New York Times reports that theft of tax information from a South Carolina computer system "appears to have been the largest cyberattack ever on a state government."

• Florida has ended a $20 million contract for the implementation of an education website.

• The Hechinger Report looked at a laptop program in Maine schools that was championed by current senatorial candidate Angus King as governor.

• A laptop with the first presidential e-mail sent by President Clinton is up for sale on eBay.

International

• The swearing in of the new Dutch government was broadcast live online and on TV for the first time, although it had to be done twice because it happened too early for a national broadcaster.

• The New York Times wrote about an effort to crowdfund citizen journalism in Cairo.

• A new site has gone online allowing citizens in Yerevan, Armenia to report issues in the city.

• Reuters reported how efforts to track projects in Brazil related to the World Cup online have fallen short.

• Human Rights Watch has criticized a proposed media law in Qatar.

• Rome's provincial council has called for websites that promote racism and anti-Semitism to be blocked and criminalized.

• An Australian jury found Google liable for search results that linked a man to a gangland crime.

• Australian police have ended their inquiry into the leaking online of a video showing former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd uttering profanities.

• A German state data protection commissioner has expressed concerns about a mobile phone company's plans to sell information about customers' locations and movements.