By Jennifer Dangremond | Senior Grant Writer
The NOAH team has been working hard to encourage staff, patients, friends, and family to exercise the right to vote. You’ve created some awesome displays and we’re excited to start voting for our favorites in The Beat next week.
In the meantime, let’s talk about actually voting in the upcoming election! NOAH supports your right to vote. For details, take a look at NOAH’s Voting and Election Policy.
If you signed up for mail-in voting and have received your ballot, you know there is a LOT on the ballot including candidates for congressional, state, and local offices, judges, school overrides, and propositions. With so many choices to make, voting can be complicated. Thankfully, there are a ton of nonpartisan resources to help you with your decisions.
Here are a few worthy of checking out:
Arizona Secretary of State
The Arizona Secretary of State publishes a Publicity Pamphlet for every election.
To help with decisions on judges, the pamphlet includes a summary and report by the Commission on Judicial Performance Review (JPR). Created by an Arizona constitutional amendment, the 34-member JPR Commission conducts standards-based performance evaluations of judges. Most of the JPR Commissioners are members of the public, not lawyers or judges. JPR reports its results to the public. This report provides JPR Commission findings, survey results, and states whether each judge in a retention election “meets” or “does not meet” judicial performance standards.
This election there are eight propositions on the ballot and the Publicity Pamphlet includes a summary of each, the actual legal language and Arguments For/Against each Proposition.
You can read through the Pamphlet here in English and Spanish.
VOTE411.ORG
The League of Women Voters was founded in 1920 and has been providing voter education ever since. The League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF) created VOTE411 to provide state-specific, nonpartisan information for voters.
Enter your home address and the VOTE411 system will show you what’s on your ballot including a candidate comparison for most offices based on League of Women Voter surveys completed by the candidates. Candidates are not required to complete this survey and many don’t. It’s still worth a visit to the site for lots of other helpful information.
HEALTHY VOTING
Healthy Voting created this pocket guide containing a good overview of voting with key dates. Healthy Voting is a nonpartisan project of Healthy Democracy Healthy People in partnership with the Center for Tech and Civic Life, the Center for Civic Design, Vot-ER, American Public Health Association, and the National Association of County and City Health Officials.
