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VotersWiki

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This is a proposal for a new Wikimedia sister project.
Status of the proposal
Statusclosed
Technical requirements

VotersWiki is a community wiki dedicated to helping voters in a democratic society understand their options on their ballots. Many voters are not aware of the resources available to evaluate public servants up for re-election and the numerous unsung candidates that would like to be considered on a "write-in" ballot. VotersWiki is designed to bring these resources together and help voters in a democratic society make more informed decisions that are driven more by their own ideals and values and less on political campaign techniques.

VotersWiki would be world wide and would have a page for each ballot in each national/state/county/etc. election. Obviously significant oversight resources would be needed to ensure the wiki is not biased towards any one political party, candidate, or view.


Proposed by

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miles_matthias


Alternative names

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WikiBallot, WikiVote


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WikiVote - however that proposal is designed to create ballots and allow users to vote, whereas VotersWiki provides supporting material to ballots that already exist.

Domain names

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VotersWiki.org (not registered) WikiBallot.org (not registered) WikiVote.org (not registered)


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Demos

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People interested

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  1. Miles matthias
  2. CDefense7
  3. Hérisson grognon (talk)