{"id":880,"date":"2018-10-11T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prof.chicanas.com\/blog\/?page_id=880"},"modified":"2024-10-10T16:26:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T23:26:47","slug":"dr-gs-election-guide-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prof.chicanas.com\/blog\/?page_id=880","title":{"rendered":"Dr G’s Election Guide 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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California Voting Guide – Are you registered?
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California Secretary of State:\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> Check your status here<\/a> – \u00a0 \"Link<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Santa Clara County Registrar here<\/a> (find polling place, track absentee ballot, get SAMPLE BALLOT<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n

After you vote:\u00a0 \u00a0 track your ballot (Santa Clara County)<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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How do I decide ?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/h1>\r\n

Read your voters guides, of course, but here are other sources to help you think this through….<\/p>\r\n

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Endorsements – see what other organizations recommend –<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Mercury News endorsements<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Los Angeles Times endorsements<\/a><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bay Rising Action (progressive) Voter Guide<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee (BAYMEC) Endorsements<\/a><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 California Faculty Association (CFA) Endorsements <\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

SF League of Pissed Off Voters at http:\/\/www.theleaguesf.org<\/a>\/ \u00a0(progressive SF organization)<\/p>\r\n

SIREN Voter Guide in Eng, Span, Vietnamese\u00a0<\/a> (Immigrant Rights network)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

SEIU (union) endorsements<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Dolores Huerta Foundation Voting Guide<\/a><\/p>\r\n

San Jose Nikkei Resisters Voting Guide<\/a><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Look to your hometown newspaper for their endorsements!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n

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Find other trusted sources<\/h2>\r\n

Calmatters.org<\/a> offers these pretty good explanation videos<\/a> of each California Ballot propositions in only two minutes. (Calmatters is “a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom<\/a> committed to explaining California policy and politics).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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Consider who is funding the campaign<\/h2>\r\n

Calmatters also offers these complete pages on each ballot initiative<\/a> including financial backers and opponents (Click on the initiative to see full page of info)<\/p>\r\n

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Other resources:\u00a0<\/h2>\r\n

Votesmart.org\u00a0<\/a> 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\u2026.<\/p>\r\n

LEAD Filipino offers this Insta guide<\/a> to the California propositions:<\/p>\r\n

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\u00a0 California Voting Guide – Are you registered? California Secretary of State:\u00a0\u00a0 Check your status here – \u00a0 Santa Clara County Registrar here (find polling place, track absentee ballot, get SAMPLE BALLOT) After you vote:\u00a0 \u00a0 track your ballot (Santa Clara County)   How do I decide ?\u00a0\u00a0 Read your voters guides, of course, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":429,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-880","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prof.chicanas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prof.chicanas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prof.chicanas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prof.chicanas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prof.chicanas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/prof.chicanas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/prof.chicanas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880\/revisions\/1690"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prof.chicanas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prof.chicanas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}