Web 2.0 Project Taps 'Wisdom of the Crowd' to Probe Presidential Contenders
506395
A new project called 10 Questions employs a Digg-like tool to promote the best voter-contributed video questions. The top 10 will be presented to presidential candidates for a response.
541862
The Internet's chock-full of information and persuasion to help you solidify your vote.  Here's a quick guide.
719106
The Republican candidate is finding new ways of engaging voters online. But will those results translate into votes?
539159
Presidential hopefuls starting to use blogs, social networking sites to advance their cause.
154029
THE Internet has changed the way political campaigns are run.   In 2004, Howard Dean showed that the Internet can be a great way to connect directly with voters and target grass-roots fundraising.
228929
Presidential Guidester polls voters, matches their positions with those of candidates.
208920
Some are born to rule, others to  ridicule is a worthy reminder to U.S presidential hopefuls  struck by an endless arsenal of satirical barbs on the Web.
667932
November 6, 2004 â An  Open Source web based Survey tool is playing a key role in keeping track of voting irregularities in todayâs US Presidential Elections. PHPSurveyor (http://phpsurveyor.sourceforge.net), a PHP based online survey tool, is being used to gather data across the United States about all voting irregularities. In the first 10 hours of voting alone, over 13500 incidents had been recorded using the software. The tool was selected by the Verified Voting Foundation as part of their Election Incident Reporting System (http://www.verifiedvoting.org/eirs/) as one of three major system components â all of which are Open Source.    The Advokit tool provides a structure within which campaign leaders can match volunteers to tasks, and manage task completion. The MapServer tool displays clickable maps. PHPSurveyor is used to allow Verified Votingâs thousands of volunteers across the United States to enter voting irregularities and incidents online as the day progresses. Researchers can view the collected data in real time by mining down through a map of the US, viewing incidents at a Nationwide, Statewide, or County level.  PHPSurveyor developer Jason Cleeland said âIâm very excited that my tool is being used for a project of this scale and importance. Itâs an indication both of the success of Open Source as a development strategy, and itâs flexibility in allowing organizations to freely bend an existing project to new uses.â  âWhile PHPSurveyor is generally a tool for simple development and collection of survey responses online, the Verified Voting Foundations âTechWatchâ group of technologists have been able to integrate it with realtime reporting mechanisms that allow legal teams and press across the United States, and the world, to respond immediately to any problems in the Presidential elections as they occur.â  PHPSurveyor was first developed in 2003 by Jason Cleeland in response to his organisationâs need for a better way to run and record surveys. âPaper based surveys were effective, but required a large commitment in terms of staff resourcing,â Mr Cleeland said. âFor a non-profit organisation, finding the time for staff to perform the required data entry was a real problem. Yet at the same time, we had a constant need to run surveys of our members. Writing an online survey tool solved these problems. It eliminated the double-handling of the respondent completing the survey, and a data entry operator transferring that response to computerâ said Mr Cleeland. âInstead, the respondent completes the survey online, and the data is immediately available for review.â  From a relatively basic system, the tool quickly grew a wider feature set. âIt was the release of the software on Sourceforge as an Open Source GPL product that really broadened PHPSurveyors outlookâ said Mr Cleeland. âWithin a matter of weeks some IT developers from a public non-profit TV station in Dallas, Texas had started adding code and providing improvements. And since then, more ideas, suggestions, and improvements have flowed from all over the world on a constant and sometimes overwhelming basis.â  At the time of writing PHPSurveyor had collected over 23500 incident reports on the US Presidential election, with 13500 being entered in the 10 hours since voting commenced. âI expect that by the close of polls there will be around 30 to 35,000 entriesâ Mr Cleeland said, âand that by the time all the paper reports have also been collected the tool will have collected at least 40,000 responses. This is very exciting to watch â to see a tool that was intended to handle around 1000 survey responses, to one that can collect - in a very short time frame â over 40,000 indicates to me the benefits of opening source code to the world.â
438518
Looking for a way of reaching young voters, candidates have discovered the social networking sites.
161845
Even non-Americans can cast a vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential election thanks to a Web site tracking world opinion on the race for the White House.
155272
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's online and cable broadcast Monday night is a landmark event in a year of experiments with Web 2.0 amid the most exciting presidential race in decades.
57233
NEW YORK -- Lecterns are so 2004. In the latest chapter of new Web-empowered debates and interaction with presidential candidates, social networking site MySpace and MTV will bring together 2008 hopefuls and young voters for real-time online conversations.
404003
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's supporters and others mull over Thursday's Iowa caucus results, as well as the role of the internet in political organization and messaging.
220898
Some are born to rule, others to ridicule is a worthy reminder to U.S presidential hopefuls struck by an endless arsenal of satirical barbs on the Web.
705708
A sampling of youth outreach efforts in the presidential campaign:
727054
For those U.S. residents still unsure which presidential candidate to vote for -- and there appear to be quite a few who can't make up their minds less than a week before the election -- there's a new Web-based tool that can help voters match their positions to those of the major presidential candidates.
122004
With most states reporting massive new voter registrations and many political observers worrying about potential voter confusion and allegations of fraud on Nov.2, one organization has created a web-based tool to answer questions and provide information.