Monday, November 06, 2006

Voter Resources


Unlike some of my professors and classmates, I am still a big advocate of voting.  I don't know if that makes me an irrational economist or not? 

Regardless, here's a collection of useful links for tomorrow's election: 

Vote 411.org

Launched by the League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF) in October of 2006, VOTE411.org is a "one-stop-shop" for election related information. It provides nonpartisan information to the public with both general and state-specific information

Project Vote Smart

Project Vote Smart, a citizen's organization, has developed a Voter's Self-Defense System to provide you with the necessary tools to self-govern effectively: abundant, accurate, unbiased and relevant information. As a national library of factual information, Project Vote Smart covers your candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings.

C-SPAN Election Guide

Candidates and issues by State brought to you by C-SPAN.

Polling Place Locator

This poll locator will bring you to the most current government poll location data in your state or county, ensuring that the information you receive will be the latest available from your election officials. After entering your zip code and proceeding to the next page, you will be able to click through to that state-based data hosted on your election office websites.

Tradesports.com is still predicting the Republicans will keep control of the Senate and the Democrats will get control of the House.  Tradesports has been remarkably reliable in the past and I have no reason to doubt their predictions now.

1 comment:

jeremy h. said...

Brian,
You're only being irrational if you're voting to alter the outcome. If you have other reasons for voting, that is completely rational.

Of course, whatever those reasons are, they will have to run counter to the idea that democracy is a process for choosing leaders.