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Voter Education


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Contact Information
If you need help with registration, contact the Snohomish County Elections office directly. If you would like to host a voter registration event, contact our Voter Services Chair.

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Tools For Making Decisions

  • LWV Candidate Forums
    • Our nonpartisan forums will introduce you to candidates and give answers to questions that are important to you.
  • How to Judge a Candidate
    How confident do you feel about your ability to choose a candidate to vote for? Do his/her views match yours? What qualities are important to you? This League of Women Voters guide will help you move beyond campaign ads, social media chatter, and noisy news cycles to find the best substantive candidate who represents your values and needs.
  • OpenSecrets.org
    Run by the Center for Responsive Politics, whose mission is to: “Inform citizens about how money in politics affects their lives, Empower voters and activists by providing unbiased information, Advocate for a transparent and responsive government.”
  • LWVSC Resource Brochure: Fact or Fiction? or en Espanol: Realidad o Ficcion
    A tri-fold brochure created by the League of Women Voters of Snohomish County with tips and guidelines that help you evaluate the validity of information that you encounter from various sources.
  • Vote411
    The League of Women Voters Education Fund established Vote 411.org as a “one-stop shop” for non-partisan general and state-specific election-related information.

Tools For Learning About Voting

  • The State We're In. Textbooks for elementary and secondary school students, homeschooling parents, and anyone who wants to know about the basics of government in Washington State; learn about state, local, and tribal governments. Available in free, downloadable formats!
  • See our Register to Vote page for answers to many common questions.
  • Use your home address to find your legislative and federal representatives.
  • Subscribe to the Snohomish County Elections e-newsletter.

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Tools For Navigating Media Lean


Media Bias Chart (Interactive)
News sources are analyzed and rated by Ad Fontes Media to help users see where their news is coming from.

AllSides.com
Balanced media from left, right, and center. 

The Flip Side
Aggregate of various opinions on current topics sent via email. Paid subscription service. 

Ground News
See every side of every news story. Paid subscription service.

RealClear Politics
A non-partisan site curating coverage from “every angle of the day’s most critical issues.”

1440
Current news edited to be as unbiased as humanly possible.

Do you know of other news sources that are striving to be unbiased or have tools to discern media bias? Please let us know so we can update our list! 
Civics Education

Our friends in the Bellingham League of Women Voters offer these resources that share information on how various aspects of government work, from taxes to division of powers.


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