[open-government] Countries with open data sets on "who is on your ballot"?

[Steven Clift]

Does your country or state/province provide open data on who is one
your election ballot?

If yes, let me know: clift at e-democracy.org

One of the impetuses for _crowd-sourcing)_ this data with
YourNextMP.com and the global interest coming together in a Knight
News Challenge proposal - http://bit.ly/6countriesnewschallenge - is
that this data simply does not exist in a central location in most
places.

Other than the U.S. foundation/.com world putting together -
https://www.votinginfoproject.org - by cobbling together basic
candidate data (not increasingly crucial social media links however)
from multiple states, I am not personally aware of data sources in
other countries.

Are you?

The key innovation with the YNMP approach is what getting fundamental
election data into the public domain can unleash -
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/democracy-club/CBMf7YJblsk-
when it goes beyond the just the name, party, and position being
sought.

Thanks,
Steven Clift