Public Election Billboard in The Hague

Elections for The Hague’s city council are to be held on 3 March 2010, and around the city, the municipality has erected temporary billboards on which each party fielding candidates in the election can place a poster putting its case to the voters.

I’ve never seen anything like this done in an American election. It’s not a bad idea, and something we might want to emulate, especially if publicly financed campaigns are to be embraced.