Votizen is a start-up voting/campaigning technology being tested out in San Francisco. Despite the unfortunate name, the implementation seems super neat:

The technology works like this: A citizen signs up and declares their endorsement for Lee, and Votizen confirms the person is a registered voter. If the voter wants to do more — say, be a campaign volunteer — Votizen scours his or her Twitter/Facebook/social networks for names and then compares that list to voter registration records, which shows address, party affiliations and whether the person voted in a previous election.

The supporter is then asked to contact the likely voters in his social network to support the candidate and even given ideas of how best to pitch friends based on their public positions.

The San Francisco mayor’s race is drawing in the tech industry like never before. In part, that is because Lee and Supervisor David Chiu, who is also running, were able to keep companies like Twitter and Zynga from leaving the city by shepherding legislation to change tax rules.

Of course, given my tendency towards fervent politicizing, this would likely see my social media numbers drop precipitously. But still, awesome idea.