Local parties getting important extra data
Hundreds of thousands of extra email addresses are being made available to Lib Dem local parties via the Lighthouse system. … Read the full post »
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Hundreds of thousands of extra email addresses are being made available to Lib Dem local parties via the Lighthouse system. … Read the full post »
I recently guested on Michael Bossetta’s Social Media and Politics show, talking about… social media and politics. In particular, how the media coverage of election campaigns… … Read the full post »
Recently the Joe Biden campaign messed up its data a bit, and as a result one of the campaigns volunteers unknowingly rang the campaign’s deputy campaign manager… … Read the full post »
Improving the party’s technology and use of data was one of the major themes in my manifesto when running for Party President. … Read the full post »
It’s eleven years since I wrote about “the Government’s farcical slowness over updating election imprint rules” to deal with the internet. … Read the full post »
The Lib Dem Newbies group is run by and for new and not-quite-so-new Liberal Democrat members. There’s a great buzz about the group, and it’s a wonderful source of information, support and inspiration. … Read the full post »
Tom Scott nicely summarises the powerful arguments against electronic voting for public elections, and given his own expertise also makes the point that the problems with electronic voting look worse the more you really know about how computers and security really work. … Read the full post »
Jimmy Flannigan, candidate for District 6 in Austin, talks about traffic, water, property crime, rising taxes – in one long, flowing take. … Read the full post »
What impact is digital campaigning having on politics, and is it for the better or the worse? That’s what I discuss in the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts with Kate Dommett, Senior Lecturer in the Public Understanding of Politics at the University of Sheffield. … Read the full post »
The more attention someone pays to politics, the more likely they are to be left/liberal in their views. That’s the finding from… … Read the full post »