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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/newsroom/entry/open_for_questions_comes_to_a_close_at_1200_am/| title=This edition of Open for Questions comes to a close at 12:00 a.m. |publisher=Change.gov |date=2008-12-11 |accessdate=2014-01-21}}</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.

Google Moderator will be shutting down on June 30, 2015 because the usage does not match the expectations Google had. <ref>{{cite web |url=https://wwwdocs.google.com/moderatordocument/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub |title=Moderator shutdown announcement |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website=Google Docs |publisher= |access-date=11 May 2015}}</ref>

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