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General Voting Resources
Government Election Sites
Promises and Voting Records
Did the President or your Congressmen keep their promises?
- Presidential Administrations’ Promises from OpenSecrets
- US Senate and House of Representatives Voting Records (any state)
Find out whether your state legislator (any state) is voting like they said they would.
Campaign Donations and Lobbying
- OpenSecrets
- OpenSecrets-Congressmen from any state
- OpenSecrets-Donor Lookup
- Go to your state’s Secretary of State’s website to see campaign finance reports.
Evaluating Information on Candidates/Issues
- Evaluating Political Information: Thinking like a Fact-Checker and a Connoisseur
- Find Facts Fast: A free training program from MediaWise and the Poynter Institute
- How to Spot Misinformation online for Seniors
- Media Bias Ratings
More Nonpartisan Website Resources
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- AARP – Information on government and elections from the perspective of senior
- Votesmart –Comprehensive information about candidates everywhere with a comparison tool
- Ballotpedia – Has a huge amount of information of all kinds on elected offices, candidates, and issues. Voting records of Nevada State Legislators are also posted.
- GovTrack
- Vote411– A project of the League of Women Voters; non-partisan and nonprofit voter education
- Pew Research Center
- USA.gov-US Gov’t site with information about elections overall
- NV Campaign Finance Reports
- 2024 Nevada Election Information
- How to Judge a Candidate-League of Women Voters
- AAUW-American Association of University Women-“provides nonpartisan information about candidates’ positions on issues like equal pay, education, campaign finance, and reproductive rights. Candidates’ positions on the issues are determined using their legislative records, public statements, and campaign position papers, as well as published information from credible sources.”
- Congressional Research Service — Reports by Congress’ think tank, provides valuable insight and nonpartisan analysis of issues of public debate. Available to everyone for free.
“Given how much time, effort, and expense businesses and certain government agencies invest into checking candidates’ backgrounds, I am perplexed and disappointed that we as a nation are failing when it comes to elected representatives. How is it possible that Santos could lie about virtually everything — from his educational background to his work experience and even his ethnicity — and use so many variations of his name and still be sworn in to serve”
Barry McManus, Former CIA chief interrogator and polygrapher
