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Cyber-campaigns unaccounted for

Graham Smith | 12:46 UK time, Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Only a handful of candidates declare anything at all for their websites, blogs, tweets and Facebook campaigns - Labour's Lee Jameson reported £9.56 for his website in St Austell & Newquay, Julia Goldsworthy spent a small amount on various bits of new media and that's about it. This absence of evidence leads me to speculate that candidates with less money (Mebyon Kernow, Labour, Greens etc) probably relied more on cyberspace than those who could afford lots of posters and glossy leaflets - and that e-campaigning still has a long way to go to level the playing field of a paid-for democracy.
Stop Press: UKIP's Mick Faulkner declares he spent £18.98 on a megaphone. Clearly, e-campaigning still has a very long way to go in St Ives.
Stop Stop Press: Er, actually I've just noticed that Andrew George spent £172.87 on Google advertising. I just googled "Andrew George" and got 7,610,000 hits in 0.32 seconds. Impressive...but I won't read them all.

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