WEB RESOURCES Smart Voter www.smartvoter.org is a project of the League of Women Voters of California's Education Fund. Smart Voter provides nonpartisan election information, California election results, voter registration, maps and directions to your polling place, and plentiful information on ballot issues in California. The California Online Voter Guide www.calvoter.org/2000 provides information on current and past (1994 - present) elections in California. It provides links, election statistics, and serves as a "clearing house of election information" prepared by the California Voter Foundation. Legislative Analyst's Office www.lao.ca.gov provides analyses of propositions on the California ballot, information about government revenues and expenditures, online copies of ballot pamphlets, and voter information guides. League of Women Voters www.lwv.org, the site of the League of Women Voters US, details the League of Women Voters' actions and advocacy on issues of national concern. It includes Issue Priorities, News and Events, and opportunities for citizens to get involved in grassroots political activity. League of Women Voters of California http://ca.lwv.org has a website that answers questions about voting, has information about and links to your elected representatives, provides links to California government, has information about League sponsored action, and posts online issues of its newsletter, "The Voter." Marin County Election Advisory Committee www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/rv/main/Dept_Home/Advisory_Committee/index.cfm provides advice and recommendations to the Marin Country Registrar of Voters on voter participation and election integrity issues as they affect elections held in Marin County. marin.org www.marin.org is the site created by the vice president of LWVMC. It is a good place to start when you are looking for links to any place in Marin. You can access the web sites of the board of supervisors, county departments, the public library system, any city or town hall, and service departments such as the police, fire, sanitation, and water. You can also find local parks, museums, and nonprofits in Marin County. California Voter Foundation (www.calvoter.org) The California Voter Foundation was created to follow the money in campaigns. CVF's founder Kim Alexander has lead the effort to require that campaign contributions be posted promptly on the Internet. Since its beginnings, the CVF website has blossomed into an invaluable voter friendly tool, especially at election time. You will find information organized in unique ways. For example: how to reach proponents and opponents of ballot measures and lists of ballot measure endorsements, pro and con, by newspapers. Kim also editorializes about vital election issues, such as the pros and cons of Internet voting following her service on the Secretary of State's Internet voting study committee. One of CVF's latest offerings is an extraordinary list of Internet sites to help citizens find information about government and issues. Reaching Our Legislators Many elected officials have their own web pages and accept e-mail messages from concerned citizens. Click here for information on reaching six of our our legislators. Congresspedia (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congresspedia) Editor-supplied information on our current 539 members of Congress. Readers can log in and edit or contribute to the content. "To help insure fairness and accuracy, Congresspedia is overseen by a paid editor." Standard information supplied: bio, campaign donors, controversies (if any), committee memberships and affiliations, additional background information, articles and other sources, and contact information. California Secretary of State (www.ss.ca.gov)Whether you seek information about registering to vote, voting, filing to run for office, understanding the campaign contribution reporting requirements, qualifying an initiative for the ballot, researching past election archives, forming a new political party, recalling an elected official, finding out who your elected officials ARE, reading the ballot pamphlet that you tossed out with the junk mail, and much, much more, this is the site for you. And any comments or questions that you send to the site's webmaster will be answered promptly.