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April 22, 2005

UK Election Activism

 The UK's National Autistic Society and Treehouse charities are running an online campaign of its own during all the election action.

The Autism Counts website, http:www.autismcounts.org.uk, has been built using Campaign Express's suite of online campaigning tools. It enables supporters to lobby or petition their local candidates by email. They simply visit the site and register their name, email address and postcode. The latest technology identifies the visitor¹s constituency and local candidates.

A list of petitioners and their email addresses will be emailed to candidates to encourage a dialogue on key Manifesto issues. Supporters can also register online to receive regular newsletters about the election campaign. They will automatically be told when a local candidate has signed the Manifesto.

It is estimated that over 535,000 people have autism in UK

 

This is an amazing campaign that we hope has a lot success, and I encourge everyone to contribute more stories like these.

­ so, including friends and families, over 3,000 people are affected per constituency. There are 80 seats with majorities of 3,000 or less. There are over 200 seats with majorities of 6,000 or less. The votes of people with autism, their friends and their families could affect the result in many constituencies and that of the general election.

Posted by Buzz Webster at April 22, 2005 02:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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