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• Project Vote Smart Young Voters Program.
• (11-04-02) 18 to 24-year-olds are the age group least likely to vote in the upcoming election. ... Project Vote Smart, a national non-proft, non-partisan orginization is trying to change that. ... For more information about Project Vote Smart go to www. vote-smart. org, or call toll free 888-vote-smart.

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• edu, port 1112: FROM THE 35,000 MEMBERS OF PROJECT VOTE SMART. ... Hundreds of citizens are volunteering to make Project Vote Smart possible. ... Shattering the candidates' ability to manipulate and abuse them, through Project Vote Smart a source of accurate information is being put directly into the hands of the people. ... For more information on Project Vote Smart, call our toll free hotline at 1-800-622-SMART. PROJECT VOTE SMART COMPONENTS Voter's Research Hotline Our volunteer researchers can tell you what your representatives or candidates are doing for you or to you: * their voting record in over 20 key issue areas * biographical details of their service in Congress * performance evaluations by 70 liberal to conservative organizaions * who has paid for their campaigns * their telephone numbers and mailing addresses * their past campaign position statements * and much, much more! TOLL-FREE TO ALL CITIZENS! 1-800-622-SMART National Political Awareness Test Project Vote Smart interns and volunteers interview all candidates for federal office. ... This information is available through our Research Hotline (1-800-622-SMART). Computer Access Computer access to Project Vote Smart data through Internet and bulletin board. ... Internship Program Hundreds of student interns from throughout the country work and study at Project Vote Smart. ... Project Vote Smart does not sell or allow anyone to use our membership list. Please send to: Project Vote Smart 129 NW Fourth St. ...

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• Interns will also guide a massive national partnership program with the WWF, MTV, Rock the Vote, and national campus organizations to put voting and candidate information directly in the hands of hundreds of eligible voters.
• Additional information and the applications are available on the Project Vote Smart web site at www. vote-smart. ...

• The study, conducted by a nonprofit group called Project Vote Smart, is not affiliated with any political party and has been polling state and federal politicians since 1996.
• In Virginia, 8 percent of legislative candidates filled out the awareness study questionnaire, prompting Vote Smart to tag the state’s returns as "dismal" compared to its 25 percent return rate in 2001.
• The Vote Smart survey covers issues ranging from abortion to national security; politicians who fill out 70 percent of the survey or more are counted as having completed the study. Candidates’ answers are put on Vote Smart’s Web site.
• According to Vote Smart, each General Assembly candidate was given three chances to complete the survey, and Del. ...
• Vote Smart contacted 208 candidates in Virginia; 17 returned the survey, nine Republicans, two democrats, and six independent candidates.
• Vote Smart enlists the help of more than 450 news organizations to get information for its study, including CNN and The New York Times, though not the Daily News-Record. ...
• "Unfortunately, we were not able to cultivate many (Virginia) media partners this NPAT cycle due to some reorganization in our media department," said an e-mail from Lindsay Siler, Vote Smart media director.

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• Project Vote Smart, located at the Great Divide Ranch high in the Rocky Mountains, is a non-profit serving all Americans with accurate and unbiased information about candidates and elected officials. ...
• For students seeking college credit, The Vote Smart Semester provides an unique blend of professional experience and college coursework. ...
• Project Vote Smart maintains a website where voters can go to research candidates' positions, campaign finance info, special interest group ratings and much more. The interns work to promote the many services Vote Smart provides to thousands of newspapers, TV and radio affiliates, libraries and youth organization across the country. Started by President Carter and Ford along with dozens of other national leaders, Project Vote Smart needs your help. ...

• Project Vote Smart: Clare Scheuren, President, Board of Directors .
• Project Vote Smart is a national organization that offers free, direct access to information on elected officials and candidates for office. ... As a nonpartisan source of political information, Project Vote Smart is meant to be "a point of departure for a whole new range of activities for citizens. ... By contacting Project Vote Smart, "folks can say for themselves what they care about, instead of someone telling them what they care about. ... As Scheuren put it in an interview following her testimony, callers to Project Vote Smart "are in a position to act in an informed way--to write letters to the editor, to contact their member of Congress directly, to go to public forums, to ask challenging questions, to get in touch with the newspaper's news department and say, 'What are you guys doing over there?'" Would a better informed citizenry be less cynical about government, or would it discover evidence that only deepened its alienation and distrust? On the one hand, Scheuren believes that voters who lack information about the policy process are most likely to be cynics. ... " On the other hand, there is no doubt that specific information made available by Project Vote Smart may sometimes discredit particular legislators or the process itself. ... " During its first national test in 1992, Project Vote Smart received 209,000 calls. ... But as Scheuren noted in her testimony, Project Vote Smart conducts special projects in areas "where there are large numbers of people who haven't traditionally voted--low-income, minority, and youth voters. ... Project Vote Smart is one response to the widely lamented "lack of voter participation, lack of confidence in government, lack of faith in government. ...

• Vote smart .
• In 1995, most Ontarians did not vote for the Mike Harris Tories. ...
• In 1995, dozens of ridings elected the local Tory because Liberal and NDP candidates split the vote. ... If we want quality public education, health care and public services, we must vote smart.
• Many districts have endorsed specific Liberal or NDP candidates as the ‘smart vote' choice. ...
• Work for a candidate, donate to the candidate of your choice and finally, on June 3, vote smart. ...

• Voters get smart by going on League's web site .
• Kathleen Weisenberg of Atherton, one of the leaders in setting up the league's "Smart Voter" project in 1996, hopes it will help alleviate the problem of campaign finances. ...
• Smart Voter is an outgrowth of a study by the national League of Women Voters that identified new technology as one means of making voter information more accessible to citizens. ... Weisenberg, who was serving on the national board, helped contact Smart Valley Inc. ...
• In May of that year they called former Senator Becky Morgan, chief of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, and Pete Sinclair of Woodside, who headed Smart Valley. ...
• This election, Smart Voter is reaching 13 counties in California, plus four cities in other states: Tucson, Arizona; Nashville, Tennessee; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Snohomish, Washington. ...
• Smart Voter is governed by the League of Women Voters of California Education Fund through a steering committee which includes Mrs. ... It is co-sponsored by Smart Valley, the California Secretary of State, the California Voter Foundation, and registrars of voters in participating counties. ...
• "The Smart Voter project isn't just another experiment conducted in cyberspace," said Warren Slocum, San Mateo County's registrar of voters. ...
• San Mateo County libraries are partnering with "Project Vote Smart," another national organization that provides unbiased, accurate and extensive information on candidates for state and national office. ...
• vote-smart. ... The site appears as a link from the Smart Voter web site. ...
• Libraries are giving out free copies of Project Vote Smart's "Voter's Self Defense Guide" as long as they last. ...
• People can also dial the Voter's Research Hotline (888 VOTE SMART) for voter information. ...

• PROJECT VOTE SMART AND WSU LAUNCH PARTNERSHIP TO AID CITIZEN LITERACY.
• -- Project Vote Smart, the nationally recognized, nonpartisan voter education group, and Washington State University are launching a new partnership aimed to aid both American voters and the education of WSU students.
•         WSU political science and journalism faculty will work with Project Vote Smart on three key publications, including the Voter's Self-Defense Manual, and also on the group's National Political Awareness Test. ... The University of Idaho endorsed the partnership and U of I students will also be eligible to participate in Vote Smart internships.
•         "We are very pleased to be working with Project Vote Smart on projects that help Americans understand the political process and vote with greater knowledge of issues and candidates' positions," said Lance LeLoup, chair of WSU's political science department and interim director of the Foley Institute. ...
•         Project Vote Smart started as a research project in 1990. ...
•         LeLoup and Susan Ross, WSU journalism professor, have been named to a Project Vote Smart advisory committee. In upcoming months, they will review early drafts and provide advice on the Vote Smart Yellow Pages, the Reporter's Source Book and the Voter's Self-Defense Manual, as well as the National Political Awareness Test. ...
•         The full-time student interns working at the Vote Smart headquarters would receive scholarships funded through a Hearst Foundation grant to cover their room and board. ...
•         "Project Vote Smart is a national leader in voter education, and the PVS web site has been ranked No. ...
•         Looking ahead, LeLoup and Kimball see opportunities for the partnership to expand, including establishment of some Project Vote Smart offices on WSU's Pullman campus. ...
•         The web site for Project Vote Smart is <www. vote-smart. ...

• Project Vote Smart   (Informational web sites) GeneralType - Informational web sites Brief Description - Directories for locating elected officials, tracking of bills before Congress, and discussions of current issues Language - EnglishSubject(s)Political Science Public Affairs United States Government E-collection(s)Reference URLs .

• The folks at Project Vote Smart were able to pin down thousands of slippery pols, but they couldn't get around Oregon's restrictive land-use laws.
• Visit Project Vote Smart's Web site at www. vote-smart. ...
• In 1998, more than 70 percent of Oregon's legislative and congressional candidates completed Vote Smart's political awareness test, including U. ...
• Project Vote Smart has packed up its headquarters and moved to free-livin' Montana, taking a piece of Oregon's pride and some student opportunities with it. ...
• Project Vote Smart is a nonprofit, non-partisan information clearinghouse founded by such strange bedfellows as Mark Hatfield, George McGovern, Barry Goldwater and Geraldine Ferraro. ...
• For four years, Project Vote Smart tried to do just that, while at the same time building its headquarters in the small village of Wren, about 15 miles from the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis, with which Vote Smart was affiliated. ...
• But the folks at Vote Smart weren't smart enough to get around Oregon's land-use laws. ...
• Project Vote Smart was granted an exemption by the local planning commission, but some neighbors objected. The neighbors, some of whom were OSU faculty members, didn't like the idea of college interns bunking in a makeshift dorm on the Vote Smart property. The Benton County Board of Commissioners overturned the zoning exemption and sent the Vote Smart folks packing. ...
• "It was a classic situation," says Adelaide Elm, Vote Smart's public information director. ...
• It's true: The group was reviled by politicians, who chafed at Vote Smart's aggressive brand of research, and revered by reporters for the same reason. ... If pols tried to duck the test, they were publicly "outed" by Vote Smart for "flunking" the test. ...
• Vote Smart is also popular with voters who have used Vote Smart's Web site and 888-number to do instant checks on the credibility of candidates' claims. In fact, when Vote Smart decided to pull up stakes, approximately 50,000 citizen "members" came forward with average contributions of $35 each to help the group acquire a new home. ...

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• Do you know where your candidates really stand on the issues of the day? At the time of this writing, four of the leading candidates in the presidential race have failed to submit NPATs to Project Vote Smart. An NPAT (National Political Awareness Test) is a survey that Project Vote Smart sends to all candidates, presidential and otherwise, which allows them to put their views on paper so that voters can make direct comparisons and make informed choices. Voters have a right to know what policies a candidate supports and opposes BEFORE they vote for him or her. ... At present, George Bush, Howard Dean, Dick Gephardt, and John Kerry have refused to submit NPATs to Project Vote Smart. ... com Your message could say something like this: Dear ______________, I would like to support you in your bid to become President of the United States, but it has come to my attention that you have not submitted an NPAT (National Political Awareness Test) to Project Vote Smart. ... vote-smart. ...

• Project Vote Smart needs volunteers.
• Are you tired of all the political games being played by candidates running for public office? Do you want to start making choices? Get to know Project Vote Smart and become involved right here on campus.
• Project Vote Smart is an organization designed to bypass the political mud-slinging and verbal bashing that candidates do to better themselves in the political race. ...
• Through Project Vote Smart individuals can receive factual nonpartisan information about the candidates.
• This fall, students at Northeastern can actually become a part of the campaign madness by serving as interns with Vote Smart.
• Heather Holdridge, intern coordinator, said Project Vote Smart is a great way to become involved in student affairs.

• From The 35,000 Members Of Project Vote Smart.
• Shattering the candidates' ability to manipulate and abuse them, through Project Vote Smart a source of accurate information is being put directly into the hands of the people.
• For more information on Project Vote Smart, call our toll free hotline at 1-800-622-SMART.
• PROJECT VOTE SMART COMPONENTS.
• Computer access to Project Vote Smart data through Internet and bulletin board.
• Hundreds of student interns from throughout the country work and study at Project Vote Smart. ...
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• In California, the deadline to register to vote for an election is 15 days before each local and statewide election day (by February 16, 2004 to to vote in the primary election on March 2, 2004, and by October 18, 2004 to vote in the general election on November 2, 2004. ...
• After the 7-day deadline, you may apply for and vote an absentee ballot at that office either in person or through an authorized representative. ...

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• Don't waste you vote on a Republicrat. ... There are still a few : situations where I would vote for a Republicrat : over a Libertarian. ... I would vote for the : pretty good candidate, even though I agreed with : the Libertarian candidate more. : : In pretty much, all other cases, I agree with you, : vote Libertarian. ...

• Vote Smart: What's All the Fuss About the Vote Smart Questionnaire? .
• The "smart voter" - by definition - is one who knows the candidates' stands on the important issues of the day. ... Smart Voter find out where the candidates stand? Project Vote Smart, a national, non-partisan voter education organization operating out of Montana, thinks it has a quick and simple answer. Before every election, Project Vote Smart sends a candidate questionnaire to all the aspirants and publishes the results on its website.
• According to Rachel Weiss, the Vote Smart staffer responsible for the Virginia survey, only 9 percent of Virginia General Assembly candidates (19 out of 208) answered the "2003 Virginia State Legislative National Political Awareness Test. ...
• "I vote on all of these issues and my votes will give you a better view of my positions. ...
• Some, however, cite the Project Vote Smart survey itself as the reason for ignoring it. ...
• Emmett Hanger (R - Augusta) said, "the Vote Smart questionaire is well done in that it covers a lot of topics relevant to current Virginia policy discussions. ...
• Since the Vote Smart folks don't send you any money or a letter of endorsement for agreeing with them, but rather just make the information available potentially to a whole lot of people who may disagree with you, then there is a perceived downside with very little upside to your investment in time. ...
• "I thought the Project Vote Smart Survey was slanted and biased. ...
• The memo was abrupt - "Please do not respond to the Project Vote Smart questionnaire. ...
• The folks at Project Vote Smart are somewhat baffled by the less-than-warm welcome their survey received from Virginia candidates. Lindsey Siler, Project Vote Smart's Media Director, likens the questionnaire to a job application: "Voters should expect no less of political candidates than they would of anyone applying for an important job. ...
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• Project Vote Smart.
• Recently, we completed the Project Vote Smart Community and National Leaders Roundtable Tour. As an organization whose members were invited and participated at one or more of these meetings, I wanted to let you know of Project Vote Smart’s decision to heed the overwhelming majority of participants and provide easy access to all the Project’s data via our New and vastly improved Web Site (www. vote-smart. ...
• In an attempt to address this desire and help organizations provide their members and supporters with relevant and unbiased candidate information, Project Vote Smart has added a new feature to its award winning web site, “Link To Us”.
• This new feature will allow your members and supporters to access all of Project Vote Smart’s data from your web site and if applicable your state and local affiliate web sites as well.
• ·Information about Project Vote Smart outreach programs: .

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• Project Vote Smart is totally non-partisan and provides an opportunity for candidates to express their positions on issues from taxation to abortion to welfare reform. ...
• They do have until election time to return their issues information to Vote Smart. ...
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• (adapted from Project Vote Smart) .
• Objective - To use Project Vote Smart to find out who your local representatives are and assorted biographical and political facts about those representatives. ...
• If you don't know who your representatives are, you can use the Project Vote Smart Web site to look them up and answer the following questions about them. ...
• Go to Project Vote Smart .
• Find out what district you live in and who your representatives in government are, by entering your zip code in the form on the Project Vote Smart Home Page.
• Answer the following questions using the information provided by Project Vote Smart. ...
• This lesson was adapted from material at Project Vote Smart by Emily Hacker for the Literacy Assistance Center, 1999.

•  Letters Sent: Vote Smart asked to include Nofault Divorce Information.
• To be fair part of the problem is that this issue has yet to make it past the "Judiciary Committees" onto the floor for a vote. ...
• Here is how Vote Smart can be reached from the information on their web site: General Email and Site Content: comments@vote-smart. org Research Requests: hotline@vote-smart. org Mailing Address: Project Vote Smart One Common Ground Philipsburg, MT 59858 General Phone: 406-859-8683 Candidate/NPAT Phone: 406-859-8692 Voter's Research Hotline: 1-888-VOTE-SMART (1-888-868-3762) " .
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