Task #1

Find out which councillors have the right stuff with regard to the environment

Task #2

Identify new candidates with the right mix of leadership and environmental savvy!

Task #3

Elect Town and Regional Councils which will make good environmentally sound decisions

How secure is the content of this site?

Submitted by Site Administrator on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 19:18
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Recently, a few candidates have indirectly questioned the security of this website and the questionnaire behind it.

The questionnaire is hosted on SurveyMonkey.com, the world’s leading provider of web-based survey solutions with more than 4 million account holders including 100% of the Fortune 100. For their security statement go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/Monkey_Security.aspx.

The invitation to the questionnaire is sent to candidates via the secure server at SurveyMonkey using a specific email link so that no-one can access the questionnaire other than the person to whom it was addressed, and they cannot access anybody's answers other than their own.

Those answers are then copied to this site. All of this is done by one person. No-one else has access to the answers.

Can answers be hacked? Anyone with experience on the internet will tell you that nothing is 100% - yes, somebody with a lot of resources and strong motivation could probably modify answers. But why would they? - these aren't credit card accounts or state secrets.

Candidates can check their page at any time and if any candidate feels their answers have been tampered with, they should contact the webmaster at durhamgreen@gmail.com immediately.

At the time this is being written, more than 85 candidates have completed the questionnaire with no issues.

Incumbents have had more than a year to complete the questionnaire and all the new candidates received it within a week or so of registering.

There are many candidates who would love dearly to avoid environmental issues, and so, rather than answer legitimate questions from constituents, they will try any excuse as to why they shouldn't have to.

If candidates don't want to answer, that is their choice - but more than enough candidates have, for voters to make their choices.

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