As it happens, for the first time that I can remember, one of the major
political parties has actually tried to engage with the electorate by
putting a personally addressed survey through our door; so I'd guess that
there is interest from their side -- it's almost as if they were reading my
mind/this list ;)


2009/1/23 Tom Steinberg <[email protected]>

> > Given it's not a change we're gonna make in the next few days or
> anything,
> > how about we just add it to the "features we'd like to see" list thingie
> and
> > consensus can decide how important we feel it is?
>
> Thanks Owen, for reminding everyone about the ugly bogeyman of
> resource constraints and prioritsation.
>
> The only thing we collectively voted for that might involve candidate
> data was an election quiz site. I happen to think that a good quiz
> would involve mailing candidates and asking them for information on
> how they voted, as well as using Public Whip data on incumbents and
> parties.
>
> As long as the team building the quiz site agree that involving
> candidates is possible and sensible, then we will get into the world
> of scraping/gathering candidate info. At that point, I'm all for other
> people using the structured candidate data we gather for their own
> purposes.
>
> all the best,
>
> Tom
>
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