House Candidate Lets Web Users Set His Schedule 116
brahn at actblue writes "From ABC News: Jeff Seemann, running for one of Ohio's seats in the House of Representatives, '...has an unusual approach in deciding how to spend his campaign. He asks Web surfers: Should he sleep in? Prepare for his debate? Campaign door to door?' (More coverage here and here.)
Best of all: Jeff is fighting back against Diebold and their paperless voting machines -- and they're based in his district!"
He's cool (Score:4, Informative)
Server using GWS/2.1 (Score:1, Informative)
curl -I jeffseemannforcongress.com 2>&1|grep ^Server
Server: GWS/2.1
jobs, not donations (Score:3, Informative)
As Walmart found with a small town in CA- when a corporate giant leans into the political process that blatantly, people get really pissed.
They won't have to do a thing- if Diebold has enough employees in the county, he'll simply loose because a vote for him will be turned into a vote for putting Diebold employees out of work. Happens allllll the time, and people are dumb enough to fall for it every single time.
Re:This is bound to work out well... (Score:4, Informative)
Actually one of the less gerrymandered looking district maps I've seen. 18 and 6 are the only suspicious looking ones. That and the fact that the district containing Columbus is split kinda weird (Franklin County). It's also curious to note that the part of Montgomery County that slipped into the 8th district contains almost soley Wright Patterson AFB.
Re:This is bound to work out well... (Score:3, Informative)
From there, I've found pretty good success finding their websites and other information using Google.com.
Perhaps one of the best resources you can use in determining who to vote for is Opensecrets.org [opensecrets.org].
This guy must be in a poor district, the incumbent has raised three times more than him, but that still only comes to $126,000. The difference in funds in the Ohio senate race is just disgusting. Although, I haven't seen a single Voinovich ad on TV; so what is he spending that 8 mill on?
Re:I'll be very surprised if he wins (Score:3, Informative)
BTW, Ludditism isn't really an appropriate description. The Luddites wrecked machines to protect their jobs. /.ers tend to be against non-paper trail voting because it is Very Bad For Democracy. Big difference.