[okfn-discuss] [open-government] Fwd: Open Source Voter Guide Platforms?

Tue Jun 24 00:03:13 UTC 2014

Hi all,

I just wanted to pass along, as a potentially relevant resource, that
MapLight publishes Votersedge.org <http://votersedge.org/> which has
federal and (soon to come) state election data for all states, including
Minnesota, for the Nov. 2014 election. We also just recently announced that we
will be releasing an API
<http://maplight.org/data-release/maplight-releases-huge-database-of-14-election-information-for-developers-via-api>
.

Please don't hesitate to be in touch if you have any questions.

Jay Costa

Program Director
MapLight
510-868-0894

> On Jun 18, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Luis Villa <luis at lu.is> wrote:
>
> I've been pretty happy as a voter and occasional contributor with the
> simple, wiki-powered http://ballotpedia.org . Unless one of the more
> complicated solutions screams that it is absolutely, 100% the right fit for
> your use case, wiki might be a simpler/more flexible/easier-to-bootstrap
> approach for getting up to speed, building community, etc. (I probably
> wouldn't recommend MediaWiki but I suspect others here might have better
> suggestions on that.)
>
> Luis
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Lots of great examples from Europe. What do you recommend we explore
>> first?
>>
>>
>> From: Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org>
>> Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:15 AM
>> Subject: Open Source Voter Guide Platforms?
>> To: newswire <newswire at groups.dowire.org>, brigade <
>> brigade at codeforamerica.org>
>>
>>
>> With  http://hackformn.org coming up with weekend, I've planted a seed
>> for a group to crowd-source social media links tied to the 134 state
>> house seats in Minnesota.
>>
>> The government collects campaign web addresses and email (some they
>> added to the campaign fling form at my suggestion a decade ago), but
>> not social media links, a stock digital photo, or any basic candidate
>> information.
>>
>> My goal is to stand up a pretty basic voter guide that builds on our
>> previous effort to crowd-source social media links for existing house
>> members: http://bit.ly/mnlegsocialmedianotes
>>
>> Ideally candidates will be able to upload a stock photo and character
>> limited free form text, insert a youtube video link, update the social
>> media links we don't have, and voters will be able to look up the
>> candidates by their address or a map.
>>
>> KEY is taking a creative commons approach that says anyone may reuse
>> the data and therefore lower the cost for the media and others
>> creating other voters guides.
>>
>> I know of http://Consider.It which is used with the
>> http://LivingVotersGuide.org in Washington State, but the frame is to
>> help people evaluation ballot measures (which we rarely have
>> state-wide in Minnesota).
>>
>> Via some parliamentary monitoring circles and Twitter I was sent:
>>
>> 1. http://bit.ly/1lxW68C - 134 voter advice applications spreadsheet -
>> via https://twitter.com/kamilgregor and a map from Europe
>> http://bit.ly/1iEejkX
>>
>> 2. http://voisietequi.it runs on django/web.py over python,
>> Source code is on github, at
>> https://github.com/openpolis/voisietequi/tree/vsq2,
>> and https://github.com/openpolis/voisietequi-computer
>>
>> 3. http://www.votematch.eu http://www.euvox2014.eu
>>
>> 4. http://volebnikalkulacka.cz http://volebnikalkulacka.sk
>> http://partmonitor.hu
>>
>> 5. ParliamentWatch is running on Drupal.
>> We released all code on:
>> https://github.com/parliamentwatch/parliamentwatch
>> http://www.parliamentwatch.org
>>
>>
>> So what am I missing?
>>
>> What code out there would be the easiest to adapt to our stated goal
>> of a simple system for candidates to be invited to upload ore details
>> and others to be able to get and reuse the data?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steven Clift
>>
>>
>> Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
>>   Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org
>>   Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy
>>   Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072
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