Ballot Measures Guide
Voter Registration Information
Local Election Offices
Other Election Resources: (Election Resources in Admin)/State Campaign Finance Offices, Political Parties
The purpose of the Project Vote Smart
Ballot Measures Program is to provide information for voters on the various statewide initiatives, referenda, state questions, bond measures, or constitutional amendments that voters are presented with. We cover statewide ballot measures initiated by the people or by the legislature during primary, general, and special elections. Our content is retrieved from Secretary of State's offices, and includes: the actual text of the measure, links to the original legislation, any summaries of the ballot measure we can find, the pros and cons, election results, and vote totals. Currently, this information cannot be accessed through a zip-to-district search, and must be selected from the menu on the left. As a result, many voters do not know we have this information- you should direct them to it as much as possible.
While we call
this section "voter registration" we actually have other information that would be useful to voters: how to verify registration, voting absentee, early voting, and polling place information. This information is retrieved from each state's election website, and is usually updated once before the Primary Election and once after the General Election.
If it is close to the day of the election, or if someone has a complicated situation that you wouldn't be able to answer (like they have just moved to another district and want to know where to vote), it is best to refer them to their
local election office. These offices are grouped by locality- typically, it is their county election office, but some states have regional or town election offices.
Our election resources section is really just another way to get to our voter registration information, local election office directory, and to find the contact information for the state's elections office and campaign finance office.
