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Alexandra Bjerg

VIDEO: Creating a more diverse California electorate
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Lisa García Bedolla has some engaging thoughts on how to diversity the strangely uniform California voting population

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VIDEO: CACEO to create new election cost database
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Democracy isn’t free. Elections cost money and California holds a lot of them. How much exactly? Well you can’t put an accurate price tag on elections. Well, not yet, anyway. But that’s about change.

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Voter’s Edge arms Californians with abundance of information
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Casting an informed ballot requires hitting the books before hitting the booth. If you don’t do your homework, voting can feel like taking exam you didn’t study for. Voter’s Edge looks to change that.

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VIDEO: Taking California’s Online Voter Registration to the next level
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The June 3rd primary election is just six weeks away, yet millions of Californians will be unable to cast a ballot because they’re not yet registered to vote.

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VIDEO: Pew says California ranks near the bottom in election performance
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While California was given credit for slashing polling place wait times in half, it was dinged for being one of only two states that don’t provide voters with web-based statewide voting and election information lookup tools

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VIDEO: Opening up California’s data with MapLight’s Jay Costa
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CA Fwd talked to California’s homegrown technological transparency sleuths to ask about the state of transparency in the Golden State.

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VIDEO: Secretary of State candidates on making California elections more transparent
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Want to know what low or no-cost measures the six candidates for California Secretary of State would take, right away, to improve electoral transparency? California Forward asked them.

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Future of California Elections depends on us
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Hoping to reverse the trend of declining turnout, policymakers, researchers, election officials and advocates gathered to discuss the challenges and advances in the field of elections as well as explore new opportunities to improve participation and election administration in California.

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VIDEO: California Secretary of State candidates’ ideas on improving voter participation
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California Forward’s got you covered; we asked each candidate to name two things you promise do to increase voter participation in California. Watch the video to find out what they said.

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