California Voting Guide – Are you registered?
California Secretary of State: Check your status here –
Santa Clara County Registrar here (find polling place, track absentee ballot, get SAMPLE BALLOT)
After you vote: track your ballot (Santa Clara County)
How do I decide ?
Read your voters guides, of course, but here are other sources to help you think this through….
Endorsements – see what other organizations recommend –
Los Angeles Times endorsements
Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee (BAYMEC) Endorsements
SF League of Pissed Off Voters at http://www.theleaguesf.org/ (progressive SF organization)
SIREN Voter Guide in Eng, Span, Vietnamese (Immigrant Rights network)
Dolores Huerta Foundation Voting Guide
San Jose Nikkei Resisters Voting Guide
Look to your hometown newspaper for their endorsements!
Consider who is funding the campaign
Ballotpedia offers this list of financial supporters for each initiative.
Here’s the list at California’s Fair Practices website
Find other trusted sources
Calmatters.org offers these pretty good explanations of each California Ballot propositions in only two minutes. (Calmatters is “a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom committed to explaining California policy and politics). Here’s the first….the rest are here.
Other resources:
Votesmart.org lets you see which candidates most align with your political values, and gives lots of info about who endorses who, and who contributes to who….
LEAD Filipino offers this Insta guide to the California propositions: