October 2010 Update

CaliforniaChoices.org is your one-stop-shop for nonpartisan facts on the November 2, 2010 election ballot measures. The website includes an interactive display of endorsements made by 60 major organizations and a tool that allows you to share how you are voting with others.

California Choices is brought to you by Next 10 and Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West with the Institute of Governmental Studies at U.C. Berkeley and the Center for California Studies at Sacramento State.

"There are nine ballot measures, most of which have a direct impact on how our state is governed. California voters know that changes are needed -- but how can they get reliable nonpartisan information to make decisions on this long list of complicated measures -- especially when some represent very different or even completely opposing views on how best to reform our state? We developed California Choices to provide voters with the overall context and facts they need to make sense of a challenging ballot during challenging times."
-F. Noel Perry, Next 10 Founder

“Californians have a huge stake in this year’s election. The measures on the ballot have the potential to directly impact our future economic growth, the health of our environment, our taxes and even the way we vote in future elections.”
-David M. Kennedy, Co-Director of The Bill Lane Center for the American West and Pulitzer Prize winning historian

"California government is unique in the extent to which fundamental reforms in governance and public policy are made through the initiative process. This process often is murky as ordinary voters are forced to decipher the substance and the politics of very complex issues. Providing information and analysis about these initiatives, their relationship to each other, and their potential consequences for how the state is governed is a vital public service and so this web-site is an important contribution to deliberation and civic education."
-Jack Citrin, Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley

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