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100,000 Surveys Completed!

Posted 1 year ago | Comments | Tags: 100000 surveys voteforpolicies general election 2010

by Simon Plenderleith

Thanks to all our vocal and passionate users, we’ve had over 100,000 surveys completed since we launched just over three weeks ago. We’ve been thrilled to hear all of your feedback, and it’s been fantastic watching the site grow and spark political debates across the world (we’ve picked up quite a foreign following from the USA, and even places as far afield as New Zealand!).

Matt has been ploughing his way through the freshly released manifestos so that we can update the survey to reflect current party policies. We should hopefully have this painstaking, but essential process completed by early next week. If we have it up sooner we’ll be sure to let you all know.

This past week or so, we’ve had major challenges keeping everything up and running to serve the hundreds of thousands of visitors to the site. We can only apologise if you’ve had problems completing the survey - we appreciate how frustrating it can be - but the good news is that we have now massively upgraded our capacity. We should have all the juice we need to help make this the most transparent election in history!

We’ve got some really exciting new features in development for the site at the moment. Some will help you spread Vote for Policies far and wide, others will help empower you and fellow voters in your constituency. We’re also working on some fascinating infographics that will provide a more detailed insight into the results that the surveys are producing.

We’re excited about what the next three weeks in the run up to the election will bring. Stay tuned, and don’t forget, vote for policies, not personalities!

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