Elections, Voting and Campaigns: Candidates-Parties

Be a More Informed Voter!

• League of Women Voters 
• Arizona Voter Guide: one vote can make a difference 
• Project Vote Smart An extensive database of information on candidates and elected officials, including the President, Congress, Governors and State legislators. Profiles include: background and contact information (e-mail address and link to candidate's website),  positions on key issues, voting records, campaign finances, and ratings of each candidate from over 100 interest groups across the ideological spectrum.
• OpenSecrets.org 
• Ballotpedia - Arizona Politics 
  
• U.S. Electoral College The Electoral College was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between election of the president by Congress and election strictly by popular vote. In the United States, the people vote for electors who then vote for the President. This official website for the Electoral College gives more detail on the history and the function of the Electoral college and answers many common questions. It also presents numbers of electoral votes from past elections, beginning in 1789.
• Elections - The American Way (Library of Congress - American Memory Project)  Easy-to-understand information about candidates, voters, the Political Party system, the election process, and campaign issues.
• Multimedia learning resources about elections from the Library of Congress Expert presentations, exhibitions, bibliographies, webcasts, and other online materials related to U.S. elections, including humor and political cartoons.

Communist Party USA

Constitution Party

Democratic Party

Green Party

Independent American Party

Libertarian Party

Socialist Workers Party

Republican Party

Find out what candidates you will be choosing from. Type in your address or zip code for a list of federal and state candidates. Click on their profile to learn a little bit more about them!

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Did he really say that?

We all know you can't trust everything we see on the web, read in magazines and newspapers, or see on TV.  Before you decide based on what you hear or see, check out these non-partisan, unbiased organizations so you can make your decision on" the truth and nothing but truth."

FactCheck.org

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, this project monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. See FactCheck.org's article "Mis-Tweets on Twitter."

PolitiFact

Each day, journalists and researchers from the St. Petersburg Times and CQ (Congressional Quarterly publishers) fact-check the accuracy of speeches, TV ads, interviews and other campaign communications, then posts their findings to the PolitiFact website. The site offers a "Truthometer, "a scorecard separating fact from fiction," for analyzing political claims. You can browse the "Truthometer" by candidate or attacker, by subject, by political party. Claims are rated "true, mostly true, half true, barely true, false or 'pants on fire'."