[ELECTRON] My democracy project

[Seb Bacon]

Hi Joe :)

On 29 April 2010 12:26, Joe Clifford <joeclifford at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Seb,
> Fantastic ideas well implemented! I'm loving theyworkforyou.com. I have been
> struggling to decide who to vote for (the lesser of all the evils hopefully
> ;-) and this has really helped me to draw some conclusions.

Thanks!  I'm really pleased.

> Does the fact
> that the majority of the representatives in my area having not replied mean
> they have not heard about the site or are just tardy in their responses? It
> would speak volumes about them if they had been asked to complete the
> questionnaire and had not for whatever reason....

We've emailed everyone we have an email address for (85% of
candidates).  We're writing by post to the others that we have postal
addresses for.  So, yes, it's very relevant who hasn't answered.
Check out the low response rates of the Tories in the stats chart at
http://www.democracyclub.org.uk/.

> How did you decide which questions to ask and which topics to cover?

I see you've already found that out :)

Seb


> On 29 April 2010 12:05, Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been running a new democracy-related web-based project called
>> Democracy Club since September (http://www.democracyclub.org.uk/).
>>
>> Today we launched the initial results of our major project.  It's an
>> attempt to survey every single candidate in every single seat to see
>> what they have to say about some representative issues.  See the big
>> postcode box at http://www.theyworkforyou.com/
>>
>> I thought it might be of interest to folks on this list as it's very
>> much at the intersection of technology and politics.
>>
>> Feedback welcome (on a technical / usability level especially)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Seb
>>
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