The internet offers a better way to involve the public in evaluating our presidential debates, and because we’ve wanted to improve upon attempts to incorporate it into that process, we launched 10Questions.com on Oct. 17, 2007. Now, two and a half months later, the public has had the chance to rate the candidates’ responses to the top ten submitted questions and we are declaring 10Questions an unmitigated success

Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel were able to get us their responses to the top ten videos on 10Questions right before this week’s deadline!

Now it’s your turn. Go to 10Questions.com and vote on whether the candidates have actually answered the questions. Voting runs until Dec. 31, after which we’ll announce the results.

Just in time before tonight's deadline, we've added Barack Obama's responses to the the top videos on 10Questions. We're glad his campaign took the time to participate in 10Questions, though Obama was unable to record his answers to the top questions. Instead, the campaign hunted down videos of his statements from speeches and the campaign trail.

Today, December 15, is the official deadline for candidates to post their answers to the 10Questions.com online presidential forum. But since we are hearing from several campaigns, including those of Sen. Barack Obama, Rep. Dennis Kucinich Gov. Bill Richardson, and Rep. Ron Paul that they are still hard at work on their answers, we've decided to extend the deadline by three days, to Tuesday, December 18.

Welcome, NY Times readers!

Today, the New York Times Editorial board reminded the candidates about the 10Questions project, and asked again for their participation:

So you're running for president? That's terrific. As you know, the New York Times Editorial Board is involved in a project along with the nonpartisan group techPresident to use the Internet to expand voter participation in the 2008 presidential campaign. In the last two months, citizens posted video questions aimed directly at all the candidates. Then they voted to select the best questions (see www.10questions.com). And now the candidates have begun posting their video answers. We hope those candidates who haven't responded can find time before Dec. 15 to take this opportunity to a) listen to citizens asking unmoderated questions and b) speak directly to those citizens. To join in, please visit techPresident.com or 10Questions.com.

We hope to receive John Edwards' answers soon.

The story behind the voting on Round One, with our explanation of how we checked for ballot-stuffing. And yes, some people did try to cheat, but it didn't affect the results.

We've posted the top ten questions for the candidates, and already, one of them, Mike Huckabee, has answered!

It's time to move away from a debate system that limits the candidates' interaction with each other, insults the public, and reduces press coverage to a jumble of bar-fight metaphors.

We've just added Mike Huckabee to the list of participants in 10Questions. He joins John Edwards and Ron Paul as the confirmed participants; we look forward to the involvement of the rest of the candidates.

After we finish auditing the top ten videos on the site this Saturday, November 17 (voting closed yesterday), the candidates will be free to be post video responses. Look out for their video responses soon!

Voting on 10Questions closed yesterday with a huge surge in participation...and a number of last-minute submissions, including one that appears to have climbed into the top ten. And that raises an important question, was the process fair?