This repository is published to https://www.waterlooregionvotes.org
As a citizen in Waterloo Region, it can be a lot of work to try to figure out who's going to be on the ballot for municipal elections. You need to check the regional site, your local ward, and then try to figure out which list of school board trustees applies to you. Each municipality in the region is on a different page. The sites are all linked from wrvotes.com, but it's still a lot of back and forth, and the municipal sites do not list all candidate meetings. Getting to the ballot box fully informed isn't easy. We want to make it easier.
Encourage greater municipal election participation through candidacy, campaign volunteership and increased voter turnout.
- Identify wards with low historic (2014) candidate participation
- Why? Help people identify where they should get active as candidates, before nominations close (May 1-July 27)
- Answer the question of How do I run? by providing basic campaigning resources for potential candidates.
- Consolidated & easy to navigate access to basic candidate information
- who
- where
- links to websites, emails, phone #s
- Inform the community on debates/all candidate meetings for their wards
- Get out the vote on October 22
- How?
Dependencies:
- Ruby
- Bundler
- Jekyll
To get started locally:
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/CivicTechWR/WRvotes.git - Install gems:
bundle - Move into the website directory:
cd docs - Start the local server:
jekyll serve
See the Wiki, Issues list, or join the #project_region_vote channel on our slack space: https://civictechwrslack.herokuapp.com/.
Or come to one of our meetups!