Using the Web to Open the Political Process: A Video Voter Guide, an Online Candidate Forum, and a Window into the Telecommunications Industry’s Political Clout
Three very cool online tools have come across my desk in the past few days, each of which illuminates some part of the potential of the ‘net to open the political process up in ways that we only dream of a few years ago. Democracy won’t work if voters don’t have enough information to make good choices; here are three new ways they can get it.
First, new friend-of-e.politics Carly Dobbins-Bucklad (who joins Ha-Hoa Dang in the “when are they going to put an article together” category) writes in to show off a video voter guide for Pittsburg that she and other folks at the League of Young Voters put together. To create it, they asked candidates two questions and recorded the responses on digital video, then combined the clips on a site with more traditional voter background material. As they wrote supporters:
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