Posts tagged “Australian Electoral Commission

Better late than never Google

Posted on 28 July 2010

Google’s website for the 2007 Federal Election was one of the many sites I relied on heavily in the lead up to that election. That world-first service included an election mapplet—with the electorates marked out and information including the incumbent member, the candidates contesting that election, the margin, links Google News, YouTube, the ABC and other services, and a history of the seat—for Google Maps, links to the party’s YouTube channels and Google’s Australia Votes channel and a string of iGoogle gadgets. Such a service from Google was sadly lacking from this election. Until this morning of course when Google launched their 2010 Federal Election landing page. Another outcome of Google’s 20% rule, the 2010 suite includes: A Google Maps mapplet with electorates, colour-coding to indicate tipped outcome and…

Share Button

GetUp! crowdsource OzEnrol court action

Posted on 21 July 2010

Photo: Vote Here by Daquella maneraI just received an email from GetUp! asking their mailing list subscribers whether to pursue legal action against the AEC in relation to enrolment forms submitted via OzEnrol.

Photo: ’Vote Here‘ by Daquella manera, CC BY 2.0 Generic.

Share Button

Taking the roll

Posted on 19 July 2010

Photo: Vote Here by Daquella maneraWith just half an hour left before the electoral rolls for the 2010 election close I was very happy to read that “tens of thousand” of people have enrolled to vote since the election was called on Saturday. An AAP syndicated article doing the rounds (I saw it on The Sydney Morning Herald‘s website) reported that at lunchtime today the AEC had to increase call centre staff by from 500 to 700.

Photo: ’Vote Here‘ by Daquella manera, CC BY 2.0 Generic.

Share Button