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If It's Easy to Reach Lawmakers, They'll Ignore You
A new service that helps users send a fax to members of Congress will quickly devalue faxes.
Fax a letter to your representative. Without actually writing it or faxing it.
Photographer: DANIEL ACKER/BloombergThe problem with political action is that it’s hard. You have to get up early, go to meetings, write your representative, find a stamp for the envelope you don’t have for the letter you want to write your representative.… Shouldn’t technology solve this problem, and make it easier to get the political results we want?
Apparently, someone’s been asking that question. My social media feed has supplied me with word of a new application that aims to make political action as easy as sending a text.