Surf these sites: Alliance for Better Campaigns -- A public interest group that seeks to improve elections by promoting campaigns in which the most useful information reaches the greatest number of citizens in the most engaging way. American Democracy and Computer-Mediated Communication -- A Case Study in Minnesota. The analysis is fresh and awaiting further development in the world, particularly the idea of "citizenship as a unifying self-category" and the need for active training in the processes of self-government at the local level. With the troubled state of American politics in particular, and the difficult path we all are taking towards a global information society. Campaign 98 Internet Study -- GOPAC and Hockaday Donatelli Study of 20 statewide, 1998 Republican campaigns which provides information on how voters are using campaign Web sites; whether the Internet is encouraging people to volunteer and who these volunteers are. Campaign Finance Information Center -- CFIC is dedicated to helping journalists cover campaigns more in-depth by following the campaign money trail. Campaign Web Review -- Seeks to highlight the ways candidates and campaigns used the Internet in 1998 and provides perspective on the positive and negative impacts that this powerful medium is having on the electoral process. CongressVote.com -- Online community related to Congressional legislation and related affairs. Contact your Representative or Senator, educate yourself on the issues, voice your opinion, and vote on the issues. Congressional E-Mail -- Lookup your Congressman and send email with this C-SPAN service. Democracy Online -- Academic project based at George Washington University that studies online campaign and election issues in addition to promoting constructive approaches to Internet campaigns. E-Elections -- Offers hundreds of web addresses to issue campaigns looking for temporary Internet space. Virtual campaign management, custom site design and online fund-raising are also available, as is access to web-based, issue-oriented communities. E-The People -- Online petitions regarding a wide variety of subjects are available for online signature. Also, for constituent letters, the site includes a search function that identifies issue-relevant public officials. EFF "E-voting" Archive -- Electronic Frontier Foundation. Electronic Voting Links. ElectionUSA.Com- It''s Your Election -- Electronic newsletter reporting on 2000 elections with direct links to candidate''s websites. Electronic Voting Hot List -- List of Internet sites with information about electronic voting--includes links to information about systems, protocols and risks; also includes links to information about direct democracy, vote-by-phone, and vote-by-mail. Mindshare Internet Campaigns, L.L.C. -- Mindshare Internet Campaigns, LLC develops and implements online campaign strategies to help our clients use the Internet to organize, educate, and engage citizens towards meaningful off line action. Minnesota E-Democracy -- A nonpartisan citizen-based project, whose mission is to improve participation in democracy in Minnesota through the use of information networks. NetAction -- Founded to educate the public, policy makers, and the media about technology-based social and political issues, and to promote access to and use of information technology as a tool for community organizing, outreach, and advocacy. Non-Partisan Federal Candidate Campaign Money Page. -- This website re-organizes Federal Election Commission data into useful forms enabling viewer to follow the money. PoliticsOnline -- Political consulting firm providing tools for online campaigns. Includes a daily news and information service, and a journal of politics on the Internet. Pollite Lens Opinion Database -- A formal long-term debating system that allows each user to create a political platform, and respond to the platforms of others. Teledemocracy Action News + Network (TAN+N) -- The web site of the Global Democracy Movement dedicated to the creative use of modern technologies and face-to-face deliberative techniques that directly empower citizens to have authentic input into the political process. The Center for the Study of Technology and Society - Government and Politics -- Web site provides links to a number of articles and news stories regarding the use of the Internet in both elections and politics. The Coming Revolution in Electronic Democracy -- Polemic arguing that as true democracy comes into being, governments and business will subsidize many communications industries until they become universal. The Democracy Project -- Creating a competitive marketplace for political ideas and leaders USADemocracy.com -- Free service which allows members to "vote" on pending legislation in the US Congress. Virtual Activist Training Course -- A primer on using the Internet for political activism. VoteSite.com -- a place to learn about the Campaign for Digital Democracy''s efforts to win the right of all otherwise eligible people to vote over the Internet and to digitally-sign initiative petitions
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