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Project Vote Smart
Project Vote Smart is a non-profit organization devoted to increasing voter awareness. Enter in your zip code to find your local representatives. Research voting records and review how your representatives stand on various issues. Each listing includes contact information. There are many convenient pull-down menus on the home page, such as one offering information on over 13,000 candidates and elected officials, including President, Congress, Governors, and State Legislators; and another one leading to general resources on state and local politics.
( http://www.vote-smart.org/ )
Project Vote Smart: Congress Track
A complete analysis of the current Congress. "Find out how candidates stood on issues before they were elected. Track the status of legislation as it works its way through Congress. Read the text or digest of a bill. Find out if a bill has had committee action; if it's scheduled for a hearing or a vote; and if your Congressperson is a cosponsor. Find out how your Congressperson voted on a bill, and more on the institution and workings of Congress."
( http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_keyvote.php )
Project Vote Smart: Government & Politics
Data such as the text of state ballot measures, voter registration information, federal and state government information, and educational resources as well as links to thousands of political internet sites.
( http://www.vote-smart.org/other/ )
Votes for Women (textual exhibit)
167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. The collection includes works from the libraries of other members and officers of the organization including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Mary A. Livermore.
( http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html )
Vanishing Voter Project
The Project concentrates, "on encouraging young adults, particularly those on college campuses, to register and vote. This site contains information that will help them through this process and also can lead them to a better understanding of the issues and candidates."
( http://www.vanishingvoter.org/about.shtml )
Yahoo Guide to Political Organizations

( http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Organizations/ )
Suggested Library of Congress Headings

Voting

( http://catalog.lib.asu.edu/search/d?voting )
Voting--United States

( http://catalog.lib.asu.edu/search/d?voting+united+states )
Other Subject Headings Related to Voting

( http://catalog.lib.asu.edu/search/dvoting;+/dvoting/1,266,778,B/aexact&dvoting&1,7 )
Political Participation--United States

( http://catalog.lib.asu.edu/search/d?political+participation+united+states )
Other Subject Headings Related to Political Participation

( http://catalog.lib.asu.edu/search/dpolitical+participation/dpolitical+participation/1,338... )







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