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Accessing election information from libraries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (S Clift)
Tue Jul 29 20:12:44 2003
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:37:10 -0500
From: S Clift <slc@PUBLICUS.NET>
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I recall that the ALA promoted democracy in the information age as a
primary theme a few years ago. As we gear up for the 2004 election, now is
time to prepare online and print materials for library patrons to help them
make use of the best online sources.
E-Democracy has put together a set of pages pointing to a number of high
quality sources, including some that are not as well known. I encourage
you to set a link <http://www.e-democracy.us> to the proper section of your
web site. Our completely volunteer effort will be working through the 2004
election to help citizens navigate the best election information resources
across the Internet. In the early days of the campaign, only the
politically motivated tend seek out this information. By adding links
where young people, new citizens, and others browse or access the Internet
perhaps we can inspire some early civic activity.
We are also open to serving as a distribution point for PDF files of
handouts about how to use the Internet in the 2004 election. If you would
like to prepare some sort of a two page flyer based on our site, we could
put that up for use in libraries around the country right away.
Interested? Please volunteer: http://www.e-democracy.org/comments.html
Thanks,
Steven Clift
Board Chair, E-Democracy
P.S. Please forward as appropriate.
E-Democracy.Org
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The Citizen-based, Non-profit, Non-partisan Online Political Resource
http://www.e-democracy.org
Three quick updates:
1. Election 2004
The new E-Democracy.US Election 2004 directory is now open at:
http://www.e-democracy.us
Sections include links to the best election 2004 directories, major
media sites with dedicated campaign 2004 news, the best non-profit
and government election-related resources, and a special section with
Presidential campaign information.
2. White House 2004 E-mail Announcement List
Receive press releases and announcements from substantial
Presidential campaigns as well as information on new online resources
related to the 2004 U.S. presidential election conveniently via e-
mail. To subscribe, e-mail:
wh2004-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Full details on this lower volume, moderated e-mail service is
available at:
http://www.e-democracy.org/us/2004/wh2004.html
3. Volunteer Ye E-Citizens!
E-Democracy launched the world's first election-oriented web site in
1994. We are expanding our volunteer-based, non-profit, non-partisan
efforts to increase public use and awareness of reliable, high-
quality election information resources in the 2004 U.S. election.
This is your chance to help build a comprehensive directory of the
best election 2004 resources based on the citizen perspective. We
need your help to locate and organize the best election resources
that others have spent so much time developing.
Please volunteer using our comment form. Please indicate your
volunteer interests and your related skills:
http://www.e-democracy.org/comments.html
E-Democracy.Org
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The Citizen-based, Non-profit, Non-partisan Online Political Resource
http://www.e-democracy.org
Steven Clift
http://www.publicus.net
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