{"id":3720,"date":"2006-11-07T01:51:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T09:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/11\/07\/3720.html"},"modified":"2006-11-07T01:51:26","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T09:51:26","slug":"some-voting-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/11\/07\/some-voting-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Some voting resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before I go to sleep, here are some websites that might be helpful in researching stuff on ballots, primarily in CA but also anywhere else in the US--a few nonpartisan resources, plus a bunch of organizations' lists of their positions on measures and candidates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The League of Women Voters' <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartvoter.org\/\">Smart Voter<\/a> guide, providing nonpartisan election info for local, state, and national elections all over the US.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vote-smart.org\/\">Project Vote Smart<\/a> (unrelated to the above despite similarity of names), \"the nation's premier political research organization,\" providing \"[e]xtensive nonpartisan information on elected officials' voting records and candidates' positions [for] federal and state offices nationwide.\"<\/li>\n<li>ACLU's <a href=\"http:\/\/action.aclu.org\/site\/VoteCenter?page=voteList\">Congressional Scorecard<\/a>; type in your ZIP code to see your senators' and representatives' civil-liberties voting records.<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco <cite>Chronicle<\/cite>'s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/campaign2006\/\">election coverage<\/a> (and their positions), plus their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/sfgate\/indexn?blogid=14\">Politics Blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>California Secretary of State's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cal-access.ss.ca.gov\/Campaign\/\">CalAccess Campaign Finance site<\/a>, providing info about the flow of money related to the CA elections.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/politics\/elections\/\"><cite>Mercury News<\/cite> election coverage<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mv-voice.com\/story.php?story_id=2235\">Mountain View <cite>Voice<\/cite> positions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ca.lwv.org\/action\/prop0611\/flyer.html\">CA League of Women Voters positions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecovote.org\/\">CA League of Conservation Voters<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraclubcalifornia.org\/elections\/index.shtml\">CA Sierra Club positions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagreens.org\/media\/Election2006.shtml#_e06_positions\">CA Green Party positions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to post comments providing other such links, whether national or local to wherever you live.  Also, feel free to post links to positions\/endorsements by non-liberal organizations if you like.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I go to sleep, here are some websites that might be helpful in researching stuff on ballots, primarily in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}