California Forward
Before we say get out and vote (!), we have a few other things we’d like to discuss. Think of this as Scrooged, California Edition, because we’re going to talk about the past, the present and the future.
read moreLast June the statewide contest for controller was decided by less voters than it takes to fill a large lecture hall (481).
read moreWhen the California Legislature hit the campaign trail, the normally cynical press corps had to concede the session was one of the most productive and bipartisan in a generation.
read moreMillennials don’t trust those in power and think that their vote doesn’t count. Voter’s Edge can combat this cynicism by arming them with trusted election information
read moreNew research reveals demographic disparities in California’s unsuccessful vote-by-mail ballots, finding youth are more likely to have their vote-by-mail ballots rejected than older voters.
read moreA record-breaking 69 percent of voters in the June 2014 primary cast their ballots by mail. And more than one million vote-by-mail ballots have already been cast for the November general election.
read moreWhile we can’t legislate more exciting candidates, we can do more to show voters that every vote matters
read moreIt’s less than two weeks from the election and neither the drought, the support for the state water bond seem, or interest in beefing up the state’s budget reserve seem to be waning much.
read moreThe evidence is growing that voters are getting the political reform they wanted when they seized from lawmakers the authority to draw district boundaries, opened primary elections to all voters, and modified term limits to reduce constant campaigning.
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