I have just started work on this project this morning. My goal is first to find a list of all of the candidates for public office everywhere in Texas. That list may be too big if I include all local elections! Next, develop a criteria for ranking progressive policy positions. Then I suppose I will need to find their voting records and/or public statements on these issues. Since this is Texas, I also plan to have a "do they follow Jesus" rubric. Because most of these loudmouths who call themselves "christians" don't actually follow what Jesus said and did.

This might be insane, but I would really like to create a movement to register write-in candidates where no progressive choice exists. In Texas, the month of August is designated as write-in candidate sign-up season.

I am using Moodle as my content management system. It is designed for education and I used it for many years as a teacher. Conceivably, if someone from another state wanted to use this site to do the same thing, I could just add it as another "course" and give that person "teacher" status.

Currently it is sitting at http://vote.ourdyslexicchildren.org I already own webhosting rights for ourdyslexicchildren.org so it didn't cost me anything extra. I could transfer it to vote.usnewviews.com since I own that domain next month if I want. Don't know.

Let me know if any of you wish to participate in some way.