Election Information

• California
• National
• Historical
• Political fact checking sites

Quick find your elected officials
Enter your zip code and get a list including Federal and State officials - from Project Vote Smart

Election issues and news you can read online - free with your library card! Search thousands of news, politics, and current events articles & other publications. We suggest:

• Points of View for opinion essays, statistics, and source documents on current events & issues
• Newspaper articles including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, dozens more
• Magazine articles including Newsweek, Time, World Affairs, thousands more

California and Sonoma Elections and Registering to Vote

• Register to vote using the online application
  
  
• Easy Voter Guide
  Produced by the League of Women Voters.
  
  
• Sonoma County Registrar of Voters
  Information on the local issues and voting here in the county:
  • Absentee ballot information (vote by mail)
  • Registering to vote
  • Find your polling place and sample ballot
  • District / precinct maps
  • Sonoma County election results
    
    
• Elections page - California Secretary of State
  Candidate lists, propositions, voter registration forms in English and Spanish.
  • California election results
    
    
• Pros & Cons on the State Ballot Measures
  From the League of Women Voters.
  
  
• Maplight California
  Tracks the level of financial spending for and against California ballot propositions.
  
  
• The California Voter Foundation
  Clear non-partisan explanations of the ballot initiatives, as well as information on the state senate race, the national race, and funding sources for the candidates and initiatives.
  
  
• California League of Women Voters (smartvoter.org)
  Their "Smart Voter" program allows you to customize election results for your interests.
  
  
• Project Vote Smart
  Non-partisan information on elections and campaign contributions. Enter your zip code and find your sample ballot, plus a list of Federal and State elected officials.
  
  
• National Mail Voter Registration Form (formulario nacional de inscripción de votantes)
  You can print out the form (PDF format) and send it in. The address to mail your form is in the instructions on the form. You need the free Adobe Reader to open a PDF file. If you don't have the reader, you can Download Adobe Reader here.

National Elections

• C-SPAN news and election results
• CNN - Election results
  
  
• Project Vote Smart
  This non-partisan organization provides information on the elections nationwide.
• Campaign 2012: Pew Research Center
  Poll results, data, and analysis about the Presidential election.
• Federal Election Commission
  The skinny on the financials of the candidates.
• OpenSecrets.org
  From the Center for Responsive Politics. Detailed information on contributions to candidates. Includes a way to see how much was given to whom in your area code.
• MapLight
  Tracks financial contributions vs. voting results on Congressional bills. Includes Topic Pages for narrowing down to bills on a specific topic such as defense, education, or natural resources.

Historical Election Results & California Voter Initiatives

• California Ballot Measures
  Current and historical ballot propositions, 1911 to present. From the Library at Hastings College of the Law.
• California Ballot Propositions
  Initiatives going back to 1980. From the Los Angeles Law Library.

Political Fact Checking sites

• FactCheck.org
  from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
• PolitiFact
  from the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly
• The Fact Checker
  blog from the Washington Post
• PBS MediaShift article and list
  more political fact-check websites
• LLRX article and list
  more political fact-check websites
• Updated 2012 InfoToday article and list and original 2007 InfoToday article and list
  more political fact-check websites