• Many political organizations and individuals have established Web pages.
• At their simplest, Web pages provide information about the group or individual's policies, contact details and some brief biographical information, and perhaps link to related pages.
• More sophisticated Web pages provide interactive facilities so that the user of the page can provide feedback about the content of the page, express opinions about the policies or issues, offer assistance through donations or volunteering, download software, and use specifically designed programs to find detailed information.
• The following list summarizes some of the facilities that are found on political Web sites:
• Policies, platforms, rules and other organisational details
• Biographical details about key people, and links to their home pages
• Statements about achievements
• News items and press releases
• Links to stories at news Web sites that support their point of view
• Listings of mistakes made by opponents, or details about social ills they blame on opponents
• Registration forms for potential volunteers or interns
• Guest books, so that visitors can leave their comments, and/or user surveys that can be used to improve the site
• Links to sites belonging to organizations they support
• Subscription forms for e-mail distribution lists
• Links to how opponents have voted on issues
• Links to pages that denigrate opponents
• Spreadsheets that can be used to calculate the effect of an opponent's policies
• Interactive 'chat rooms' where citizens can share and debate ideas and where politicians can participate in question and answer sessions
• Links to audio or video resources
• Calendars of events and chronologies that may be searchable
• Links to Federal/State/Local governments
• Free software that can enable the user's browser to access extra resources (i.e. Real Video technology)
• Screen savers consisting of images of key individuals, slogans, etc.
• Games which reinforce their political messages
• Sales of fundraising merchandise - Forms to solicit donations.
• Internet voting is a type of voting, embracing electronic means of casting a vote. It can also involve transmission of ballots and votes via the Internet.
• Internet voting technology can provide improved accessibility for disabled voters. However, there has been contention, especially in the United States, that Internet voting especially could facilitate electoral fraud.
• Internet voting systems have gained popularity and have been used for government elections and referendums in the United Kingdom, Estonia and Switzerland as well as municipal elections in Canada and party primary elections in the United States and France.
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