Category Archives: Election ’07

We’ve seen a lot of buzz starting to go around the local web about registering to vote. We’re also grateful to be mentioned in those bulletins and emails. So we’ll join in too; tomorrow is the last day you can register to vote in this upcoming mayoral election.

We’ll be making some last minute upgrades to our Election ’07 site tonight and we will be posting the initial results of our mayoral vote poll tomorrow afternoon after 4 p.m. Head on over and click on the link in the sidebar to download the state registration form (if you don’t want to go, just click here).

Click on over and vote if you have a couple of minutes. And check out the answers given during our Your Questions, Their Answers series from five of the candidates.

We didn’t know if you knew we’d asked these candidates two more questions. Instead of posting them with the rest of the answers, we decided that we would begin building candidate profiles, with a little help from our friends over at Bhamwiki.

Click on the image above to hear the candidates answer two (2) questions; one specific to them and this question that got some very interesting responses:

How do you view the role of mayor as the city goes forward?

BTW: Don’t forget that you can still cast your vote for mayor in our online poll until 3 p.m. this Friday!

Hey, just a note regarding voting in our Election ’07 poll. We are aware that people will be using the same computer at times to vote in this poll, however…

multiple votes from the same IP address will not be counted if it is found that the same person has voted using several different email addresses!

We just thought that we needed to say that based on some of the entries that have come in during the last hour.

Thanks.

We’ve done two polls previously on the main site during the course of this year’s mayoral campaign but they were not necessarily very scientific. They did provide us with an idea of who readers were following. But we always want more info…

So we decided to do one that was much more informative to readers of the site. We’re hoping that we get an idea of not only what folks in town think, but what people outside think of this race. Click here to get started.

You’ve got until 3 p.m. Friday, September 28th to take part. We’ll share the results later that evening.

By the way, if you’re not already registered to vote, that’s also the last day that you can register; click here to download the voter registration form and get to it!

We’ll end the series of general questions for the candidates with two questions that at first glance may not be as glitzy as economic development and schools. But the answers provided for these two issues in particular, aside from the candidates’ answers on their thoughts on the role of the mayor, provided a great opportunity to see how they would handle issues.

Recycling
Allocation of neighborhood funds

Check them out and let us know what you think in the comment section for both of them. Don’t forget to check back throughout the weekend as we post profile pages for all 10 candidates; those that participated in our series will also have audio answers to two (2) additional questions. One was written by you, our readers, the common thread question was presented by us. Then let us know who you’d vote for in our poll when it begins tomorrow morning.

Your Questions, Their Answers gets those that participated to talk about what the mayor and council can do about our local drought conditions and over their ideas for working with neighborhoods to deal with issues important to them.

Drought conditions
Crime, lighting & infrastructure

Check out the main page for the series, visit the specific topics and offer your comments on their answers.

FYI – Tomorrow we’ll begin running our latest mayoral poll. Stay tuned…

Today’s questions in the Your Questions, Their Answers series over on Election ’07 deal with the issues of implementation of existing plans, the creation of new ones and the challenges that face whoever is victorious at the end of this race.

Implentation of existing plans
Their biggest challenge

Check out the entire series (it runs through Friday) and post your comments about their responses. We’d also encourage you to comment about last night’s mayoral forum on wiat.com over on our “What do you think about the candidates?” page.