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

• 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
  • 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
• 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.

Historical Election Results

• JoinCalifornia.org
  Election history for the state of California. Includes state legislative races since 1898, and federal and statewide offices since 1849. Contains current and historical candidate biographies, political party capsule histories, and legislative district maps.
  
  
• California Ballot Measures, 1911 -
  Search the Ballot Propositions database for propositions that appeared on the ballot from 1911-2004. A separate Ballot Initiatives database includes both initiatives that appeared on the ballot and initiatives that failed to qualify. Results include explanatory texts, voter pamphlet text, related legal and legislative histories, and PDF images of the original pamphlets. From Hastings College of the Law.

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
• PBS MediaShift article and list
  more political fact-check websites
• LLRX article and list
  more political fact-check websites
• InfoToday article and list
  more political fact-check websites