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Editor’s Choice: Current Voter Issues and Questions

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation

–Thank you President Lyndon Johnson!–

Mighty Pokey on the Eel River near Legget, California — Photo courtesy P. S. Smith

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Editor’s Choice: Current Voter Issues and Questions

“Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.”

—Sharon Salzberg

Rainbow Bridge — Photo courtesy Dave Redden

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Editor’s Choice: Current Voter Issues and Questions

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Canon Fodder — Photo courtesy Dave Redden

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Editor’s Choice: Current Voter Issues and Questions

““The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

–Abraham Lincoln

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“The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.“

–President Lyndon Johnson

Port Orford — At Twilight — Oregon — Photo courtesy B. L. Smith

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Editor’s Choice: Current Voter Issues and Questions

“A man without a vote is a man without protection.””

–President Lyndon Johnson

Port Orford, Oregon in Early Spring — Photo courtesy Paula Smith

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AllSides. While not a fact-checking site, AllSides curates stories from right, center and left-leaning media so that readers can easily compare how bias influences reporting on each topic. 

Fact Check. This nonpartisan, nonprofit project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by U.S. political players, including politicians, TV ads, debates, interviews and news releases.

Media Matters. This nonprofit and self-described liberal-leaning research center monitors and corrects conservative misinformation in the media.

NewsBusters. A project of the conservative Media Research Center, NewsBusters is focused on “documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.”

Open Secrets. This nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit website run by the Center for Responsive Politics tracks how much and where candidates get their money.

Politifact. This Pulitzer Prize winning website rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials. Run by editors and reporters from the independent newspaper Tampa Bay Times, Politicfact features the Truth-O-Meter that rates statements as “True,” “Mostly True,” “Half True,” “False,” and “Pants on Fire.”

ProPublica. This independent, nonprofit newsroom has won several Pulitzer Prizes, including the 2016 Prize for Explanatory Reporting. ProPublica produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Snopes. This independent, nonpartisan website run by professional researcher and writer David Mikkelson researches urban legends and other rumors. It is often the first to set the facts straight on wild fake news claims.

The Sunlight Foundation. This nonpartisan, nonprofit organization uses public policy data-based journalism to make politics more transparent and accountable.

Washington Post Fact Checker. Although the Washington Post has a left-center bias, its checks are excellent and sourced. The bias shows up because they fact check conservative claims more than liberal ones

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Editor’s Choice: Current Voter Issues and Questions

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”

–John Kennedy

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Editor’s Choice: Current Voter Issues and Questions

“As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.”

–Colin Powell

Lumber City, Georgia — Early 20th Century cabin — Photo courtesy B. L. Smith

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“Too many people fought too hard to make sure all citizens of all colors, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities can vote to think that not voting somehow sends a message.”

 Luis Gutierrez

Photo courtesy Dave Redden

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Editor’s Choice: Current Voter Issues and Questions

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”

–John Quincy Adams–

Photo courtesy Ruby Jaxen

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Editor’s Choice: Current Voter Issues and Questions

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,

they have to take you in.

Robert Frost

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“Nobody will ever diprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

–Franklin D. Roosevelt

Photo courtesy Cara Smith

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 “I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. “

— Adlai Stevenson

Photo “Blackfoot River, Montana courtesy Ruby Jaxen

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Editor’s Choice: Current Voter Issues & Questions

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