Elections and Voting
Project Vote Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org/
At this site you can find a list of candidates by party affiliation. You can search the public statements of the candidates by topic and retrieve the text of the statement(s). The site also contains a listing of primaries or caucuses by state or date.
League of Women Voters - Wisconsin
http://www.lwvwi.org/
This is the site for the Wisconsin chapter of the League of Women Voters. It contains information on current issues before the Legislature, information on how to register to vote, advice on how to contact your legislator, and links to other sites of interest.
Opensecrets.org
http://www.opensecrets.org/home/index.asp
The Center for Responsive Politics brings us this site that bills itself as “the on-line source for money in politics data”. The user can find out who has contributed the most to a candidate, what geographic area the money is coming from, what type of industry the top contributors are involved with, along with recent press releases by CRP.
Politics1
http://www.politics1.com/
This site has something for everyone. You can research issues and topics, find a list of presidential candidates by name or party, bid on old political buttons, find links to the political organizations, and descriptions of the various political parties. There is also an extensive list of news sources, poll results, and political humor sites.
Federal Election Commission
http://www.fec.gov/
This is the official site for information concerning financial contributions to candidates for office at the national level. There is also information on how to register to vote in each state and information about past elections.
FECInfo
http://www.tray.com/fecinfo/
This site contains much of the same information that can be found on the site listed above. The site is designed to be more user friendly than the official government site.
Electoral College-Home Page
http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/electoral_college.html
If you want to know anything about the Electoral College this is the place to begin. The site contains the history of the Electoral College, relevant provisions of the U.S. Constitution and federal law, and presidential election results going back to 1789.
USElections.com
http://www.uselections.com/
This directory lists links to other sites that will be of interest to people seeking information about upcoming elections.
