Philly’s election results are currently behind a password-protected wall. Help open up citizen information!
Here is the basic idea: If the City Commissioners want to plead technological incompetence, we are going to use the ruling from the City Solicitor to force their hand. If we can get 25, or 50, or 100 people to request their own passwords, the Commissioners will be forced to make a decision: Take the small, easy step of putting election results online for all Philadelphians, or take away electronic access for their buddies.Which do you think they will choose?
But, this only will work if you help. So, can you take 2 minutes and to open up Philadelphia government, and then spread the word? Click here, and lets get this done.
Election results
I was blown away the first time I tried to get the Philly election results from the election commission website. I was an election judge, signed the results and hung them up on the polling place door for all to see! Yet the results are password protected!
Unbelievable…
What I still can’t understand, though, is why none of the Philadelphia area newspapers made a fuss about this. OK, maybe the Inky is too establishment, but the DN was run by Zach Saltsburg, now with the Committee of 70. There’s Philadelphia Weekly and Philadelphia City Paper, too, neither of which kowtows to the status quo. Where were they in identifying this problem and bringing it to light?
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The decent people in
The decent people in Philadelphia, out-gunned and out-numbered by some of the most corrupt politicians in the country, deserve our heartiest congratulations.
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