Posted to Review Journal
March 2, 2014
Online Nevada political party websites: What they offer, what they don’t
By Ed Vogel, Steve Tetreault, and Ben Botkin
With local, state and federal candidates in Nevada filing for election beginning today, there is no better time to see how the political parties are doing in furnishing information online to potential voters.
Let’s look at their websites and see which sites are kept up to date, provide sufficient information about their candidates, provide links that make it easy for the public to get their viewpoints on issues and help the public contact party leaders and legislators.
The grades are ours and represent an attempt to be objective.
The Web addresses are in case you want to see for yourself. What we are watching for mostly is whether the parties keep their websites up to date. Many don’t.
This is what they said of the Libertarian Party of Nevada’s site:
NEVADA LIBERTARIAN PARTY: (lpnevada.org) Grade A-. The best political party website. Everything is kept up to date. Imaginative design. Provides easy contact links to reach party leadership. Good explanation of its positions on issues with great photos, including a young Barack Obama smoking what appears to be marijuana.
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