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Verkiezingskijker online!

Monday, February 12, 2007 ★ 14:18 ★ Categories Programming, Politics ★ Permanent url

Today a new version of the verkiezingskijker website was launched. Verkiezingskijker.nl (which means something like ‘elections viewer’ in English) is a topic-guided search engine to search verkiezingsprogramma’s (English: electoral manifestos written by participating political parties) targeted at the upcoming elections for the Provinciale Staten, next month (March 7) in the Netherlands.

Verkiezingskijker

Why this post? Well, I wrote parts of the backend code as part of a student project at the University of Amsterdam.

Volkskrant frontpage

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 ★ 10:46 ★ Category Politics ★ Permanent url

Today (the day of the Dutch national elections), my `politicalgotchi’ was printed on the frontpage of one of the largest newspapers in the Netherlands, de Volkskrant, together with the name of the party I will be voting for.

de Volkskrant

I did some counting, and a left wing coalition based on these 150 heads is perfectly possible: PvdA 30, SP 47 and GroenLinks 13, summing up to 90 seats…

Stemadvies

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 ★ 23:11 ★ Category Politics ★ Permanent url

GroenLinks

(For my readers not speaking Dutch: this is my voting advice for the Tweede Kamer elections in the Netherlands, which will take place on November, 22nd.)