Hi George! I’m posting this everywhere I can. If you would like to put it on third party watch or on independent political report, I’d appreciate it greatly 🙂
I’d like to introduce you all to a new website going live today, LPMerit.org.
This is a website designed to be like ballotpedia or maybe a League of Women Voters site, except exclusively for elections to the Libertarian National Committee and Judicial Committee.
My hope is that this website stands the test of time, and that fifty years from now people are still using it to choose their Libertarian leadership.
At the beginning we only have our two test candidates, Brittany Kosin and Mike Seebeck, who graciously took the questionnaire early so that we would have some real profiles to test the website around.
If you are a candidate for any position on the LNC or JC this year, I hope that you will take the time to make a profile and give your answers to the questions asked of candidates. It’s fairly in-depth, so I would expect to spend at least 15 minutes on it.
Thank you all for being delegates and candidates, and I hope this is useful for you.
The new version of the website is much better than the original one. Good work!
I’d love to see a website asking “libertarian” candidates what they think of the various planks in the original 1972 platform.
I like what is being done here. My fear is that the website will be underused. In other words some “front runners” for the various positions will not use it.
What about creating a website similar to this one for Party presidential candidates seeking the nomination?
Presidential candidates don’t have the same problems that internal positions do. Everybody voting for a presidential candidate has a pretty good idea about what they’re going to get, or at least the information is out there if they want it.
If the front runners don’t use it, that’ll be bad. But better to have a little information than none at all.
My guess is that the website will be more useful for at-large representatives than for the more high profile races anyway.