  More and more people rely on Web information and with the advance of Web 2.0
technologies they can increasingly easily participate to the creation of this
information. Country-level politicians could not ignore this trend and have
started to use the Web to promote them or to demote their opponents. This paper
presents how candidates to a French mayor local election and with less budget
have engineered their Web campaign and online reputation. After presenting the
settings of the local election, the Web tools used by the different candidates
and the local journalists are detailed. These tools are evaluated from a
security point of view and the legal issues that they have created are
underlined.
