openpoll is a pure electronic democracy. It will help keep a watchful eye on politicians and be an excellent source of public opinion on the laws that govern America. I have been working on this project for the better part of the past 3 years, and would appreciate it if you guys would take a look. ALL feedback is encouraged and appreciated. Thanks.<p>https://openpoll.us
Really cool idea to open this data up to the masses.<p>A few ideas:<p><i>Maybe you could do some sort of "introduction" video or tutorial so that a new visitor can tell what the site is about, use cases, where to find help, etc.<p></i>Could you maybe create a master list of "issue" keywords and then scrape the legislative text for these keywords, and then use this to tag each bill? Tags would help with discovery.<p>*Similarly, scraping the data for Legislator names would also be interesting.
I'm all for open government data. You may want to take a look at Sunlight Foundation's various projects:<p><a href="http://sunlightlabs.com/projects/" rel="nofollow">http://sunlightlabs.com/projects/</a><p>And have you seen Open Congress yet?<p><a href="http://opencongress.org/" rel="nofollow">http://opencongress.org/</a>
You should probably seed some interesting political discussions to get the comments going. I'm surprised it took you 3 years to build this-- it could have been done in a weekend and with a much better UI.