Links to Other Election Information

The Minnesota E-Democracy Project continues to receive information about campaigns in Minnesota. We also receive word about a number of Internet-based election- and politics-related resources. We can't possibly keep a complete list of them all, but here's a start.

Republican Contract With America

You may have heard about it on the TV news or in a candidate's campaign ad. What is the Republican Contract With America? Don't rely on political pundits to tell you what it is -- read it for yourself and draw your own conclusions!

Elections & Races in Minnesota

• StarTribune Candidate Profiles - Detailed candidate profiles published in the Star Tribune in August.
• Candidate position profiles from the Minnesota Association of Wheat Growers -- excellent information on candidate's stand on issues facing rural Minnesota
• Election coverage by the Minnesota Daily
• M-SPAN Minnesota Satellite Public Affairs Network
• Interactive Democracy: Minnesota Vote '94 from InforMNs.
• Ballot initiative for proposed change to the Minnesota Constitution: Off-track betting
• The State of Minnesota and the Twin Cities Free-Net will be cooperating to bring on-line election results beginning after the polls close on Tuesday evening, November 8th. Stay tuned for more information!

For a growing list of information sources about government, as opposed to elections, campaigns, and politics, visit the Twin Cities Free-Net Government Center.

Elections & Races Elsewhere in the U.S.

The following links are to election and voting servers outside of Minnesota that are other interesting or model efforts.

• Project Vote Smart, a non-profit, non-partisan organization assembling survey & voting record information about incumbents and candidates running in Congressional and state governor races.
• The Political Participation Project, a research program exploring how interactive media can be used to facilitate political participation. By Mark Bonchek, a Ph.D. candidate in Political Economy and Government at Harvard University.
• Voter/Election Information - Johnson Co IA
• State of California
  • California Voter Information and Election Results, which promises to include graphs of election returns updated every 5 minutes on Election Night, Nov 8.
  • California Online Voters Guide
  • Pros & Cons of the California Ballot Propositions, prepared by the League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
  • The San Francisco Examiner's California "Candidates publishing project"
• Georgia Election Information from the University of Georgia
• The American Politics Gopher Server at Northwestern University.
• Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
• Virginia's Senate Race Coverage by the Virginian-Pilot. This newspaper has a stunning amount of coverage of the Senate race between Oliver North and Charles Robb.
• Massachusetts Online Election Information Center
• Voter Education Project Home Page, a cooperative research project between OCLC and the Public Information Exchange (PIE)
• C-SPAN's Gopher server, containing, among other things, C-SPAN's daily broadcast schedules.
• Washington State Voter's Pamphlet, part of the Washington State Information Exchange
• The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico will be holding a referendum on November 6, 1994 to consider:
  1. to limit the right of bail
  2. to increment the membership of the State Supreme Court from seven to nine Justices
  The referendum results will be retrievable by sending an email message to:

  Boriken@enlace.bitnet

• Hawaii's election results will be available on-line via Hawaii FYI and (for the first time) via the Internet from the State of Hawaii
• The Libertarian Party WWW server
• The Democratic National Committee WWW server
• The League of Conservation Voters, which have a written a 1994 National Environmental Scorecard
• The Yahoo Guide to the WWW: Politics: Elections
• General elections information and results are available via Gopher for Pueblo County, Colorado.

E-Democracy Around the World

Where there is Internet connectivity, there are election information servers.

• Slovakia Election Results
• Swedish Election Results, available in English and Swedish, for the 1991 and 1994 elections.

Candidates on the Web

The 1994 election has brought on a new phenomenon to American politics: candidates with their own World Wide Web servers (or portions thereof). Unlike the information found in the Minnesota E-Democracy Project, these servers are maintained & paid for by the candidates and their campaigns. They are certainly biased and partisan ... and foreshadow Internet campaigns for 1996.

• Richard Boddie, Senate, California
• Steve Crawford, House of Representatives, Maryland, Sixth District
• Mario Cuomo, Governor, New York
• Dianne Feinstein, Senate, California
• Edward Kennedy, Senate, Massachusetts
• Richard Rider, Governor, California
• Mario Cuomo, Governor, New York

Other Related Information

• The U.S. Senate's On-line "Election Freeze" - An article written by Scott Fritchie and appearing, among other places, O'Reilly & Associate's Global Network Navigator.

  This article has trigged a lot of talk about the U.S. Congress and the Internet. Included is some email correspondance I've had with congressional staffers:

  Jeff Senter on the House of Representatives's Gopher server

  Cole Thomas on Senator Durenberger's electronic mail policies

• The Illinois State University's List of Political Science Lists, a list of mailing lists related to politics and political science.

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