House Candidate Lets Web Users Set His Schedule

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!"

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He's cool

[Jett]

He posts on DailyKos.com sometimes, so do a few of his campaign staff. From what I recall of his postings there he seems like he's a genuinely nice guy, definitely intelligent and aware of the issues. He started promoting this gimmick in a diary on DailyKos. It seems like an interesting idea to me, it's a good way to show people what kind of things he does as part of his campaign and it gives them a sense that he is responsive to them.

Server using GWS/2.1

[Anonymous Coward]

Did anyone notice that the server claims to be running GWS/2.1, the same thing that Google uses?

curl -I jeffseemannforcongress.com 2>&1|grep ^Server
Server: GWS/2.1

jobs, not donations

[SuperBanana]

considering how Diebold is in his district and will proably crush him with massive donations to his opponent.

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...

[Peyna]

His district isn't that small; but certainly not as hard to get from one end to the other as Ohio's 8th district would be: map

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...

[Peyna]

In most states (Ohio included) you can find a Comprehensive list of almost every person running for office (with the exception of municipal elections).

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.

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

[flossie]

Why are /.ers so anti-Diebold and 'paperless' voting. ... I just find this bastion of Ludditism surprising here.

/.ers tend to be technologically literate and therefore understand the large potential for fraud and/or incompetence to render elections pointless if there is no paper trail to audit the election.

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.