• All Things D, Friday, February 24, 2012 12:12 PM

Social-voting site Votizen has secured $750,000 in new funding from some high-wattage investors, including Sean Parker. Famous for founding Napster, Parker tells AllThingsD that "politics is one of the few remaining large-scale consumer-facing opportunities on the Internet." For the past two years or so, Votizen has been busy digitizing 200 million U.S. voting records from magnetic tape, computer databases and spreadsheets.

Though the network “only has tens of thousand of members who have registered and connected to their voter profiles, it is trying to push out products and attract users in time to get involved with this year’s general election,” AllThingsD reports. With his venture capital firm Founders Fund, Parker actually first invested in Votizen back in 2010. Additional celebrity investors -- who, as AllThingsD notes, “can raise Votizen’s profile with the push of a tweet button” -- include Ashton Kutcher and Lady Gaga's manager Troy Carter.

Formerly founder of USA.gov, Votizen CEO David Binetti says he’s aiming to capitalize on “peer pressure” -- “in a good way.” As AllThingsD explains: “Instead of money buying votes, Votizen will help friends persuade friends.”

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