Youth Vote With Cell Phones

Young Guard members rallying under their flags in Moscow in 2006. Young Guard, the youth wing of the ruling United Russia party, is urging people to vote with their wallets by sending text messages in support of candidates to run in the upcoming State Duma elections. “I am calling on you to fork out 1.50 rubles for a text message and vote for me,” Maria Butina, 22, a hopeful […]