Smart Voter (http://www.smartvoter.org) is produced by the League of Women Voters of California Education Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, to:
- Provide voters with comprehensive nonpartisan information about
the contests on their ballot in an easy-to-use presentation.
- Provide a means for candidates to publish information about
themselves and their candidacy directly to voters.
Smart Voter, first produced for the November 1996 election, covering Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties in California, was the first Web site to offer personalized election information based on a voter's address. Voters in five major elections have praised the site. Read what users said about us during the last major election. Smart Voter has received international awards.
Designed to help voters understand their choices better including local contests, Smart Voter offers extensive background information on candidates in participating counties as well as information on state and local ballot measures.
From: http://www.smartvoter.org/voter/about.html
Muscular Republican governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, pictured here in May 2006, has a slim lead over likely Democratic rivals five months prior to a re-election vote, according to a new poll.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Paul Morris)
Department of Elections
