Here's a copy of the post we left on /r/opensource last night: http://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/w2bvw/we_should_crowdsource_candidate_data_for_every/
"It's 2012, half-way through, and I still can't find a website that lists every candidate from every election (federal, state, county, local, etc.) I'm eligible to vote in. This is something that could have been crowdsourced years ago, but as far as I can tell it still doesn't exist... If you'd like to help crowdsource and freely share this data, please comment or send everyvoteorg a pm. It'd be cool to start ASAP in advance of the US Nov 2012 elections. If you know any groups that are already crowdsourcing county and local level election data (in the US or anywhere else), we'd love to help however we can. If comprehensive (all govt levels) candidate data sites already exist and we just don't know how to search, plz let us know. Here's a draft of a user interface we're working on that could convey this data to users... -After you create a profile and add your address (or otherwise manually enter your voting districts), you would be presented with this Elections page http://i.imgur.com/AJ7m6.png -If you expanded the 'All my elections' tab, you'd see something like this http://i.imgur.com/QyTLu.png where you could scroll left-to-right across the top ## candidates for each of your districts' elections -Click the person's name or picture to be taken to their full profile and voting record -Click the plus sign to the right of "Register by" to be given the option to run for office yourself (and be added to the scrollbar) or to add a different candidate to that election -Click the red flag in upper-right portion of candidate profile to report inaccuracies -'Bill match' field would involve voting record and stance comparison data (perhaps based on the research of an organization like Project Vote Smart ( www.votesmart.org) Sorry the diagrams are crappy :0 if you'd like to help create a better looking and actually functional opensource UI, or if you'd like to help code a pure democracy platform, please comment or send a pm. Check out www.everyvote.org if you'd like more info on the EV project. Thanks, good citizens!" If you like the idea and would like to get more people to help, please retweet the following https://twitter.com/everyvoteorg/status/220934666532814848 and/or let us know at [email protected]. Cheers! EveryVote.org Development Team
_______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list [email protected] Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech
