The Easy Voter Guide Project is partnering with public libraries, newspapers, county elections offices, high schools, community colleges, schools and PTAs, universities, television and radio stations, adult schools, churches, local Leagues of Women Voters and other groups to distribute over 1 million, free Easy Voter Guide booklets in five languages (English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese).
Highlights of the Easy Voter Guide Project:
• Elected Offices section that explains the duties of each state elected office
• Helpful Voter Registration and Election Day Voting information in the Guide and on the website, as well as other educational tools on the website
• Proposition section that helps voters understand the issue of eminent domain and what a yes or no vote means on Propositions 98 and 99
• Easy Voter Guide companion website www.easyvoter.org which provides additional resources for voters along with a polling place look-up feature and printable PDF downloads of the Easy Voter Guide in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Tagalog and Armenian.
How the EVG Project Can Help You:
• Order free copies online to use in voter outreach or voter registration efforts with your constituents or local communities [http://www.easyvoter.org/s1.html]
• Link your website to the EVG Project website [http://www.easyvoter.org/s54.html]
• Use EVG Project Media Spokesperson to assist with a community or media event (Spanish, English, Chinese) [Contact Elizabeth Leslie, eleslie@lwvc.org]
• Encourage your local newspapers to reprint all or portions of the Easy Voter Guide [http://www.easyvoter.org/s12.html]
• Sign up for the EVG e-newsletter to get the latest election and voter registration information
[http://lwvc.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=sign_up]
The Easy Voter Guide Project is managed by the League of Women Voters of California Education Fund in partnership with the California State Library and the California Secretary of State’s Office with funding from The James Irvine Foundation and the AT&T Foundation.