Voter’s Edge California provides candidate info

Explore candidates’ priorities, endorsements and top donors, as well as ballot measure explanations.

Voter’s Edge California, a comprehensive online voter guide in English and Spanish, launched recently to provide voters with unbiased information on candidates and ballot measures from the top of the ticket down to the local level, the organization announced.

California voters can make informed choices using Voter’s Edge to explore candidates’ priorities, endorsements and top donors, as well as ballot measure explanations and campaign funding. Information in the guide is updated daily, they added.

Voter’s Edge California, a joint project of MapLight and the League of Women Voters of California Education Fund (LWVCEF), is made possible by support from the Kaphan Foundation and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

“Voter’s Edge counters the avalanche of misinformation dominating and suffocating informed political debate,” said Stephanie Doute, executive director of the LWVCEF, in a statement released by Voter’s Edge California. “Our guide helps to ensure that every person has access to accurate and easily understood election information so that everyone has the knowledge and confidence to exercise their power and right to vote.”

To use the guide, voters simply enter in their home address and Voter’s Edge California shows a personalized page with all the contests that will appear on the user’s ballot, including endorsements, funding sources, editorials, news articles, and biographies.

Voters will also find their polling place or vote center and can mark their choices and print their ballot to bring to the polls or share with family and friends via social media.

The California Primary Election is March 3. Voter’s Edge California can be accessed by visiting https:// votersedge.org/ca.