League
of Women Voters: On Voting
http://www.smartvoter.org/voter/howto.html
A guide on how to vote that includes how to judge a candidate, how to
pick a candidate, and how to watch a debate.
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Factcheck.org: Annennberg
Political Fact Check
http://www.factcheck.org/
“We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate"
for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion
in U.S. politics.”
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The
Savvy Voter
http://www.pbs.org/elections/savvyvoter.html
Tips on how to dissect an ad, interpret a debate, analyze a poll, evaluate
a platform, assess a Web site, and view news critically.
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Project Vote-Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org/
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Ben’s
Guide to U.S. Government for Kids 9-12: Duties and Responsibilities
of Citizens
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/9-12/citizenship/responsibilities.html
A guide to voting that includes a link to the Government Printing Office
(GPO) Access page.
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History of Voting |
Books!
Helen has several from the library about the voting history
of blacks and women.
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Library
of Congress: Who Can Vote
http://learning.loc.gov/learn/features/election/voters.html
An historical perspective of groups who struggled to get the right to
vote. The site covers African Americans, Women, Native Americans, and
Voters Today and includes links to primary sources.
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One
Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html
A timeline from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection
at the Library of Congress.
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“Votes
for Women” Suffrage pictures, 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
From the Library of Congress American Memory collection. Features portraits,
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InfoTrac
Student Resource Center Gold
Access from
the Lancer Library Homepage at http://schools.4j.lane.edu/churchill/library/
For remote access, use the password that’s on the library bookmark.
A search on history of voting brings up lots
of results.
The results begin with Reference documents. Click on the buttons for
other types of documents, such as Magazines or Primary Documents.
Search for specific events: Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Voter Participation |
Voting and
Registration in the Election of November 2000
www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p20-542.pdf
A Census Bureau report that examines voting and registration patterns
in the
2000 Presidential election, the characteristics of people who voted
or were registered,
and reasons why people did not vote.
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Voting
and Registration in the Election of November 2004
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/voting.html
Data tables from the U.S. Census Bureau. Click on the tables that you
want for an Excel download.
Tables include Race, Hispanic Origin, Age, Sex, Educational Attainment,
Employment Status, and more..
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Who votes, who doesn’t, why, and what can be done?
A Report to the Federal Commission on Electoral Reform
http://www.american.edu/ia/cfer/0630test/stein.pdf
A 15-page document written by three professors on June 10, 2005.
(For the html file, do a Google search on the title of the report.) |
League of Women Voters: Alienation not a Factor in Nonvoting
http://www.lwv.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Voter_Information2&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=2188
A study that links nonvoters with a lack of information based on a survey
completed in March of 1996.
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InfoTrac Student Resource Center Gold
Access from the Lancer Library Homepage at
http://schools.4j.lane.edu/churchill/library/
For remote access, use the password that’s on the library bookmark.
A search on voter participation brings up
lots of results.
The results begin with Magazine documents. Scroll down to these two
articles
that analyze voter participation in the 2004 election:
Elections: turnout in the 2004 presidential election
Up, up and away! Voter participation in the 2004 presidential election
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Factors that Motivate Voting (and political party) Preferences |
The
NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
http://www.umich.edu/~nes/nesguide/nesguide.htm
“The Guide provides political observers..students,… and
social scientists with immediate access to tables and graphs that display
the ebb and flow of public opinion and electoral behavior and choice
in American politics since 1948.” From the American National Election
Studies (ANES) at the University of Michigan (http://www.umich.edu/~nes/index.htm)
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Beyond
Red vs. Blue
Republicans Divided About Role of Government - Democrats by Social and
Personal Values
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=242
A report from the Pew Research Center for the people and the Press,
released May 10, 2005. Examines how values divide the nation, the characteristics
of the political parties, and other major findings.
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Thomas Frank - What's the
Matter with Kansas?
http://www.tcfrank.com/
A recent book that analyzes the current political landscape in the United
States, explaining that Republicans have portrayed themselves as the
party for the salt-of-the-earth Americans and positioned Democrats as
the party of the aristocratic elite. The CHS library does not have a
copy but will be ordering one.
Scroll down for the link to excerpts and reviews or go to
http://www.tcfrank.com/wmk.html
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Oregon Initiative Process |
Oregon's Initiative and Referendum Process
http://www.stateaction.org/issues/issue.cfm/issue/BallotInitiativeReform.xml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/initiative
http://hkupop.hku.hk/chinese/features/referendums/online4.html
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Oregon's
Initiative System: Current Issues
http://www.open.org/~lwvor/Initiative.htm
A presentation of the initiative process by the League of Women Voters
that includes the steps for qualifying an intiative for the ballot as
well as the effects of the initiative process.
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Debating
Initiatives: a NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Transcript; May 17, 2000
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/jan-june00/initiatives_5-17.html
“ The ballot measure story. Are initiatives the purest form of
democracy, or is the process falling prey to moneyed special interests?”
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Youth and Voting |
Young
Voters and the 2004 Election
http://www.vanishingvoter.org/Releases/Vanishing_Voter_Final_Report_2004_Election.pdf
“Presents research from the Vanishing Voter Project on youth participation
rates for 2004, including voting, civic engagement, and partisan sentiment,
as well as predictions for future youth behavior.”
Web link is at http://elections.ssrc.org/research/votingbehavior/ |
Young
Voter Apathy
http://www.govspot.com/features/youngvoterapathy.htm
A brief article analyzing the low voter turnout among youth.
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Rock the Vote
http://www.rockthevote.com/home.php
Follow the links across the top for topics "Why vote?," "Voter
Info," and "Action."
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Declare
Yourself
http://www.declareyourself.com/press/pressroom.htm
The "Emerging Electorate" reports present survey results and
analysis of youth trends.
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Local Ballot Measure 20-106 |
League
of Women Voter's Voter Guide to Ballot Measure 20-106
http://www.lwvlc.org/ballotmeas11.05.html
Presents background, fiscal impact, arguments in support and opposition,
and the text of the measure.
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Vote YES on
Eugene Ballot Measure 20-106
http://www.yeson20-106.org/default.htm
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Register-Guard
Letter to the Editor in Opposition to Ballot Measure 20-106
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/10/15/ed.lettersmain.1015.p1.php?section=opinion |
Oversight
of police common elsewhere
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/10/19/a1.auditor.1019.p1.php?section=cityregion
Register-Guard article by Edward Russo from Oct. 19, 2005.
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