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+<div id="title-header">
+  <span class="header">Features</span>
+  <span class="subheader"></span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Selectricity is a flexible and powerful. This page lists some of the
+major features that Selectricity has to offer. <!-- We're adding
+features quickly. You can stay up to date on feature development on the
+<%= link_to("Selectricity News blog", "http://blog.selectricity.org") %>
+--></p>
+
+<div class="normal-header">
+  <span class="header">QuickVotes</span>
+  <span class="subheader"></span>
+</div>
+
+<p>QuickVotes are elections that are designed to be as simple and easy
+as possible. They are like polls but are built on Selectricity's
+heavy-duty election manchinery. They can be created in under a minute
+and voted on in just a few seconds.</p>
+
+<p>QuickVotes are meant for simple, quick decisions. They are not
+limited to registered lists of voters. They support simple lists of
+options -- no pictures, no position statements, and no long
+descriptions. They are simple enough to decide where a group is going to
+dinner, what you're going to name a project, or when to have a group
+meeting.</p>
+
+<p>The best way to learn more is to <%= link_to "create a quickvote",
+:controller => 'quickvote', :action => 'create' %> now!</p>
+
+<div class="normal-header">
+  <span class="header">Anywhere</span>
+  <span class="subheader"></span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Selectricity puts powerful election machinery into the palm of your
+hand.</p>
+
+<p>To use Selectricity, users need to access to a computer and a web
+browser -- which they don't always have in front of them. <%= link_to(
+"Sectricity Anywhere", :action => 'anywhere') %> solves this problem.
+It provides an interface to the system technology entirely accessible
+through short emails and optimized for sending use over email/SMS from
+any mobile phone.</p>
+
+<div class="normal-header">
+  <span class="header">Elections</span>
+  <span class="subheader">Coming Soon</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Selectricity Elections showcase all of what Selectricity has to
+offer. They support lists of candidates or choices with position
+statements and pictures and secure lists of voters. They have start and
+end dates and features to help made votes both anonymous and
+voter-verifiable.</p>
+
+<p>Selectricity Elections have been used by student groups to elect
+officers and by non-profit organizations to elect their boards of
+directors. They bring some of the best of what the world of high-tech
+election technology has to offer to bear on every day
+decision-making.</p>
+
+<!-- 
+<p>To create a Selectriicty Election you must first <%= link_to "log in",
+:controller => 'account', :action => 'login' %>.</p>
+-->
+
+<div class="normal-header">
+  <span class="header">API</span>
+  <span class="subheader">Coming Soon</span>
+</div>
+
+Programmers and hackers may want to use Selectricity from within their
+own site or to embed Selectricity functional into their own system.
+Selectricity makes that simple with a featureful API and the ability to
+"embed" elections.