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August 18, 2006
Maryland: all-in-one website for voters and candidates
I have to say I'm extremely pleased with the website that University of Maryland Baltimore County has put up. The Maryland Voter Information Clearinghouse is what we've been lacking for a long while now. The high points are that you can check to see if you a registered to vote. That might not seem very important to you, especially if you've voted for years, but realize the Republican party goes through when they think they are going to lose and purges voter lists and you arrive at the polls and they don't let you vote. By the time you've gotten it all cleared up they stolen the election and your right to vote away from you. With a system like this, when you hear that they've done something like that you can go out weeks in advance and check to see if they've stolen your right to vote away from you and then take corrective action before it's election day. Information is the key to fighting corruption, I think a law should be passed requiring that voter registration changes should be listed online as soon as they happen so people can start lawsuits immediately against the Republican party when they start one of these purges. It should be the standard nationwide.
The site also allows you to check up on campaigns and see where their money is coming from. It's useful for local races, but for the national races the Opensecrets.com folks have them beat hands down. Take my Congress Critter, I can drill down into the campaign contributions to see that he's getting money from Verizon and Comcast to turn the Internet over to Corporate control. Combine that with the information from BuyBlue and I realize that he put my Internet safety at risk to radical right wing Republican Corporations looking for the opportunity to cut off all the people raising their voices against the Republican party. That's the kind of stuff that makes me into a grumpy constituent. These are also bad people that turned over all our private information to the Republican party to spy on us illegally. And the guy I voted for thought it was a great idea to help them out and after writing me a letter saying he wasn't going to vote for it he turned around and did just that. That's the insult to injury part, I have it in writing that he's a liar.
Read more over at Vote Law and Washington Post.
Posted by Jamison at August 18, 2006 4:09 PM
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