The project Democracy Club & mySociety is working on now will go some way towards this -- a mixture of up to maybe 4 local questions and maybe 6 - 10 national questions will be put to each and every candidate and made available online.
http://www.democracyclub.org.uk/projects/ Seb On 30 March 2010 20:05, Steven Clift <[email protected]> wrote: > A creative commons for aggregation of candidate questions with the > dissemination of answers. > > I've always wanted to do this ... big challenge ... assuming many interest > group generated questionaires is that candidates like to emphasize different > messages based on who is asking the question. > > Steven Clift > http://stevenclift.com > @democracy > > On Mar 30, 2010 1:43 PM, "paul perrin" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have had lots of individual questions from voters, some very similar to > each other which obviously get very similar replies. > However I have also had some standard cut and pasted questions over and over > and over ! Some email and some, the same, by post. > I think it would be far more useful if the standard questions could be > hosted somewhere online, and then each candidate could answer them once, and > each candidates reply could be seen along side the others. > Some of the questions/responses received are to be published on > organisations website or magazines etc but a single website where a > candidate can login an answer the whole lot in one go would be very useful. > A sort of 'The Straight Choice' from candidates questionnaires. > > The worst thing about some of the questionnaires is those from organisations > that you know are going to hate you for your responses - while you are > equally sure that most other candidates will be doing a 'no show' rather > than actually giving honest (if unpopular) responses - but I guess sticking > your head above the parapet and getting (undeserved) flack is the difference > between believing in democracy with an informed electorate and just being a > 'politician'. > Paul /)/+) > > -- > Promoted by: Paul Perrin, UKIP Hove and Portslade, 2 Woodland Walk, > Ovingdean, Brighton, BN2 7AR > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > -- skype: seb.bacon mobile: 07790 939224 land: 020 8123 9473 _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
