IGS has collaborated to produce California Choices, a resource guide providing a wealth of data and an online tool allowing voters to share their positions on ballot items.
IGS has collaborated to produce California Choices, a resource guide providing a wealth of data and an online tool allowing voters to share their positions on ballot items. BERKELEY — The University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) is taking a decidedly Web 2.0 tack to help voters sort through the facts, fiction and political posturing around five propositions on the state's June 8 primary election ballot. IGS has collaborated to produce California Choices, a comprehensive resource guide with a unique and colorful multimedia presence and an online tool that, along with a wealth of related data, lets voters electronically share their personal positions on ballot propositions. Institute officials said a couple of other nonpartisan organizations have assembled Web sites with rundowns of the pros and cons of the propositions, but none are as comprehensive and deep as the site prepared by IGS. Voters in the Golden State will go to the polls in two weeks to vote on candidates for governor, attorney general and insurance commissioners, as well as on five ballot measures. Ballot topics include public financing for elections, switching to open primaries, reining in local governments in the electricity business, changes in setting insurance premiums, and extending property tax breaks for earthquake retrofits.
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