> I'm hesitant to go try to track the lower profile candidates for the 29,000 local councillor positions
http://votewise.co.uk has a volunteer network that covers local elections and by-elections. "Votewise is a completely free public information service that tells you when a local election is held in your area, who the candidates are and what they stand for." The model is slightly different to YNMP in that candidates are invited (a letter via the snail mail) to login an publish their own data and respond to questions from constituents directly. On average about 38% of candidates participate, in some campaigns they all do - like this: http://votewise.co.uk/index.php?pg=show&eid=00AMGS-0 If anyone wants to help us list, invite and prod candidates that would be ace you can register here: http://votewise.co.uk/volunteer The project's privately funded, completely free to all, utterly impartial and endorsed by the Electoral Commission, heaps of LGA's, pretty much all active political parties (88 so far) and thousands of candidates.. While we focus on local's we have listed others and are happy to publish other parliamentary/mayoral campaigns if the demand is there. Cheers, Mark -- Mark Bell http://votewise.co.uk tel: 0208 123 2862 mob: 0774 086 1862 _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
