Voting can be daunting, especially in a primary election where the sheer number of candidates feels overwhelming.
That’s where voter guides can help.
LAist’s Voter Game Plan is a non-partisan guide that lays out the information you need to understand the positions and issues on the ballot and then evaluate your choices to make sure they align with your values and beliefs. Our guide gives you a closer look at who is running in a particular race, their endorsements, their websites — so you can learn more about their platforms — and fundraising information. (Knowing who is contributing to a candidate tells you a lot about them.)
What we don’t do is tell you how to vote.
That said, we know it can also be helpful to look for organizations or individuals that you trust to see where they stand on a particular candidate or initiative, and use those endorsements as a guide for your own ballot.
Every election, such endorsement guides are circulated via email and social media, and it can be hard to keep track of them, let alone get some more context about who made them, where they lie on the political spectrum and what, if any, political agendas they might have.
That’s where this “Guide of Guides” comes in.
We’ve sourced voter guides and endorsements that span the political spectrum, and included individuals, publications and non-profit advocacy organizations. Some aren’t fancier than a Google doc. Others are much more polished and strategic.
This is by no means an exhaustive list. But it’s a good place to start. The guides are divided into three broad categories, and overall it leans liberal, as Los Angeles overwhelmingly does. If we missed a list or a source you think is important, let us know at the end of this article and we may include it. (As soon as the March 5 primary is over, we start prepping for the Fall election.)
Here is our guide to some of Los Angeles’ most popular voter guides:
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