It's that time of year, time for pirate costumes, pumpkins and presidential primaries. Everyone it seems is trying to get a piece of the primary pie.

One trend is for startups to find a way for vocal techies to use there new service to promote a candidate.

One company to do this is Jott Networks. They offer a voice to text service. Sign up for an account then call their number, say who you want to contact (a friend, your blog, twitter) then record your 30 second message.

Jott then transcribes your message and sends it out to wherever you want it to go. I use it to twitter on the go without bothering to type in a text message.

Best of all... it's free!

So how does this affect a presidential candidate? Well Jott created a new sister site called JottTheVote.com where you can call in, record a message for your candidate of choice and a short while later it appears on the site. Like magic :-)

I think Jott cares more about getting people to use their service than they do about the 2008 elections but it is still a cool device to try. In case you were wondering Ron Paul has more Jotts than any other candidate. Others are still in single digits.

It's a good way to see how tech savvy a candidates supporters really are. Click here to see my Jott for John McCain.

Another thing that makes this unique is that Jott is sending all the comments directly to each campaign. I'm interested to see how this goes.