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In December 2008, Google Moderator was used by the President-elect [[Barack Obama]]'s transition team in a public series called "Open for Questions", in which they answered questions from the general public. The first series ran for less than 48 hours and attracted 1 million votes from 20,000 people on 10,000 questions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://change.gov/page/content/20081211_openforquestions |title=The Obama-Biden Transition Team &#124; Open for Questions Archived |publisher=Change.gov |date= |accessdate=2009-04-20}}</ref><ref name="questions1">{{cite web|url=http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/open_for_questions_round_2_response/ |title=Open for Questions Round 2: Response &#124; Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team |publisher=Change.gov |date=2009-01-09 |accessdate=2009-04-20}}</ref> The second series ran for just over a week and attracted 4.7 million votes from 100,000 people on 76,000 questions.<ref name="questions1"/> In January 2009, Obama appointed Stanton to the newly created position of Director of Citizen Participation.

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