Here is a great example of cloud services democratising the political process  - assuming we solve digital access divide. Still loads of opportunity to move government services online improving efficiency and reducing environmental impact of manual paper based systems.

Campaign Ready is a set of Microsoft products and services positioned to meet the business, political, technical and infrastructure needs for running political or advocacy campaigns. Microsoft TownHall is the online tool that encourages, organizes moderates and houses conversations between groups, be they candidates and citizens, companies and customers, or any individual or organization that wants to engage an audience in a rich online dialogue around top interests and concerns.

(See the Townhall demo.)