I don’t normally comment on our advertisers, but I wanted to provide a little information about eVoter.com. When they contacted me a while back, I wasn’t really aware of their new database of information for voters. It’s worth a quick look.<\/p>\n
Basically, it’s like a snazzed up sample ballot. When you input your address in there, it presents all of your choices for the ballot. Pretty cool, but nothing new there. What is pretty neat is that it allows organizations to buy space in there to put their endorsements. If this eventually gained critical mass, you could just go through there and look at the endorsements of hundreds of different organizations. <\/p>\n
The site is non-partisan, so you’ll get Republican recommendations as well. Which, perhaps it’s a good thing to know who all the multitude of Republican organizations are coalescing around. The system also lets candidates and campaigns buy some space in there to provide information about themselves.<\/p>\n
The key as to whether this succeeds is the critical mass. If eVoter is able to build up a substantial market, and essentially usurp the League of Women Voter’s SmartVoter by using better technology, then this could be an interesting tool for voters going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I don’t normally comment on our advertisers, but I wanted to provide a little information about eVoter.com. When they contacted me a while back, I wasn’t really aware of their new database of information for voters. It’s worth a quick look.<\/p>\n
Basically, it’s like a snazzed up sample ballot. When you input your address in there, it presents all of your choices for the ballot. Pretty cool, but nothing new there. What is pretty neat is that it allows organizations to buy space in there to put their endorsements. If this eventually gained critical mass, you could just go through there and look at the endorsements of hundreds of different organizations. <\/p>\n
The site is non-partisan, so you’ll get Republican recommendations as well. Which, perhaps it’s a good thing to know who all the multitude of Republican organizations are coalescing around. The system also lets candidates and campaigns buy some space in there to provide information about themselves.<\/p>\n
The key as to whether this succeeds is the critical mass. If eVoter is able to build up a substantial market, and essentially usurp the League of Women Voter’s SmartVoter by using better technology, then this could be an interesting tool for voters going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[686,1311],"class_list":["post-11700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-686","tag-1311"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-32I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}