Candidate Profiles by the Numbers
On October 15th, I posted the first candidate profiles for the November 6th city elections on the
Auditor's web site. As of Election Day, 30 of the 98 candidates had provided profiles.
As of 9am on November 7th (the day after the election), the candidate profiles had been downloaded/viewed a total of 1,515 times. As of 10am today, these same profiles have been downloaded/viewed an additional 617 times, i.e., a total of 2,132 times.
Neither of the Chucks running in tomorrow's election provided profiles, which leads me to believe that the public is viewing the profiles to figure out who they elected and who they didn't elect. Suppose anyone is having "buyer's remorse"? Suppose the non-voters are thinking, "I guess I should have taken the time to vote"?
Too bad only 1/3 of the candidates provided profiles. No doubt, I need to ask for the profiles earlier in the campaign season to give the candidates more time to provide their profiles.
I borrowed the idea of posting candidate profiles from Story County, Iowa. Thank you
Mary Mosiman, Auditor & Commissioner of Elections for leading the way! --Joel @ 11:00am