Why not use DBD::CSV? That way, when you run for President, you can upgrade to DBD::Oracle with minimal work. There's an example of this in the OReilly CGI Programming book.

Update: BTW, if you're on a windows box, indigo perl comes with an apache server set up for running CGI (and mod_perl) locally, although you'll probably want to tweak the apache configuration to allow only local access.

TGI says moo