Voting! Election 2018 information

Posted by Sappho on October 18th, 2018 filed in California Ballot Propositions, Democracy, News and Commentary

Last Saturday, I was at a local small town fair registering voters. So I’m delighted to see the news: California sets record as voter registration tops 19 million

This midterm election is an important one. Here are some resources to help you in voting.

Vote.org lets you check your registration status (do this even if you’ve been registered and voting for years – names get removed from voting lists, and yours may have been removed in error), find your polling place, register to vote or to get an absentee ballot, and sign up for election reminders to ensure that you never miss an election again.

California voters can get both information on ballot measures and information submitted by candidates in all those pesky down ballot races at the League of Women Voters education site Voters Edge. You can get the facts before you vote, and fill out your own sample ballot (your intended votes are stored locally on your device, not on the Internet).

For voters across the US, the League of Women Voters site Vote411.org is your friend.

Ballotpedia is an excellent site for finding information on ballot measures and races anywhere in the country. Want to follow the money and see who is funding what? You can find it all here.

The Institute for Governmental Studies at Berkeley tracks California ballot propositions for every election. Check out their chart of ballot measure endorsements for November, 2018. You can then find the web sites of the organizations in question if you want, for instance, more detail on why a particular paper or organization recommends for or against rent control related Proposition 10. Or any other proposition of your choice.