Posted by
Hugh McGuire on
Jan 14, 2006; 12:16am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/A-Canada-Votes-Dbase-Welcome-tp155p158.html
my idea is to have a canadaelections.ca (or somesuch) wiki (for those
who don't know: wikis are web pages that anyone can edit, so you can get
a big group to put together much info quickly). you would have a page on
each policy question (health, military, education etc) and synopsis of
policy positions of each party, with an effort made to be objective.
there could also be some space for analysis & discussion, but I think
just having the information would be useful. You might also have info
about past campaign promises in each area, and whether the parties lived
up to their promises (for incumbent).
the wiki would include also pages on each riding, and each candidate,
with more particular questions, ie: how they voted on various issues,
their funding sources etc. also should have here, past campaign promises
and whether they were seen through.
once the infrastructure is in place, the updating would happen as new
elections present themselves, and as policy decisions get made.
so in the end you would have one place where moreorless objective data
about the political process would be collected, and updated.
hugh mcguire.
Stephane Guidoin wrote:
>>While many people may eventually become aware of how their elected officials
>>in the U.S. Congress voted on a particular bill or resolution, this database
>>created by the Washington Post will allow them to find out rather quickly.
>
>
> It's not far from what HowdTheyVote.ca and TheyWorkForYou.com (U.K) are doing.
> The adjunction of RSS feeds is really useful (as some webservices could be) as
> it also allow other websites to automatically print specific news (concerning a
> specific MP or Bill).
>
> It's amazing to see so many initiatives growing. There's obviously a need
> somewhere.
>
> Other data like fundraising/fund providers became a question of interest (i.e
> Stephen Harper during one of the TV debate and the Bulte story). In this domain
> it would be interesting to make an inventory of a. Required data, b. Existing
> data, c. format/usability of existing data.
>
> Stéphane
>
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