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Election Information |
Santa Monica City Clerk
Information on current elections and archives on past elections.
Campaign disclosure statements, election laws, and lists of
elected officials. |
Los Angeles County
Registrar/Recorder
Register to vote, find your district and
polling place, request an absentee ballot, and much more. Voter services are
available in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog, and
Vietnamese.
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California Secretary of State
Elections Division
Voter Information Guides, campaign finance
reports, and a variety of other materials for state level ballot items are
available here. MyVoteCounts.org
is a new online project by the Secretary of State's office which makes
access to their materials even more convenient. Includes information
on past elections.
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Federal Election Commission
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is the independent regulatory agency
charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign finance laws.
Their site is the definitive source for campaign finance information and for
the federal election results.
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On the Issues |
Project Vote Smart
A
nonpartisan group that tracks the positions, finances, and voting records of
candidates. Enter your Zip Code for a list of your elected officials and
links to their biographies and records.
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SmartVoter
League of
Women Voters educational site with information on current and past
elections, how to register to vote, and a link that allows the user to find
his/her personal ballot with candidates and measures by entering an address
and zip code. |
Rock the Vote
Nonpartisan, nonprofit groupthat encourages young people (and older people
who still rock) to be politically active. |
California Voter Foundation
Independent nonprofit organization that aims to develop online and offline
forums that promote public awareness about policy issues where democracy and
technology intersect, such as voting technology, Internet voting, voter
information and privacy, online voter education, and Internet disclosure of
money in politics."
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C-SPAN
Website has extensive
current and historical streaming video on elections. The 2004 Vote
section provides current news, convention coverage, party press releases,
and campaign ads, and a campaign finance database. |
Democracy Net
Sponsored by the League of Women Voters, DNet features information about
upcoming elections at the local, state and national levels.
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Elections History |
Vote: the Machinery of Democracy
Online version of an exhibit at the Smithsonian's Museum of American
History on the history of voting methods in the United States, which are as
varied as the individual states and their local election districts.
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Library of Congress American Memory Project
has online collections of
photographs
and documents
from the women's suffrage movement. American Memory also has a feature
on the history of
Presidential Elections and the Electoral College. |
Presidential Election Maps
From the University of Virginia Library, maps of popular vote and Electoral
College vote by state from 1860-1996. A more detailed map of the 2000
presidential election, based on different data, is available at
2000 Presidential Election Resources.
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University of California
election information databases include UC Berkeley's Hastings
College of Law database of
ballot initiatives from 1912 to the present and one for
propositions from 1911 and UCLA's
Online Campaign
Literature Archive that collects literature and Websites for elections
in the Los Angeles area (including Santa Monica). The Online Archive
currently includes all elections from 1908 to 1939, and some materials from
1940 and 2000. |
For current and historical
information on elections the Library Reference Collection includes books
like
America Votes: a Handbook of Contemporary American Election Statistics (v.1-25) or
America at the Polls 1960-1996 (currently unavailable). Also useful are
The Almanac of American Politics : the Senators, the Representatives, the
Governors--Their Records, States, and Districts and
CQ's Politics in America. For other books on elections search
iBistro, the
Library online catalog, using the subject searches such as "
Elections,"
Elections California," "
Elections History," or "
Elections Fiction."
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