I have just started conversation with my 19-year-old great-niece. She has expressed some interest in the election and I am trying to help her. However, I do not want to influence her vote so I am taking extreme care to help her to understand the importance of knowing both sides and not just vote for whomever she hears others are voting f…
I have just started conversation with my 19-year-old great-niece. She has expressed some interest in the election and I am trying to help her. However, I do not want to influence her vote so I am taking extreme care to help her to understand the importance of knowing both sides and not just vote for whomever she hears others are voting for. She needs to think about what issues are most important for her and find out which candidates emulate her views on those. As much as I want her to vote democrat down ballot, I am encouraging her to gather information and to make her own informed choices. If others here feel the same, a great non-partisan website is vote.org.
League of Women Voters is totally nonpartisan, in case that wasn't clear from my original post. It is a good starting point for any research a potential voter needs to feel confident about down-ballot races.
As for NC residents, also check out You Can Vote (https://www.youcanvote.org/). It is also nonpartisan. I especially like the "Who's on the Ballot?" and "What's on the Ballot?" handouts, both of which can be found here: https://www.youcanvote.org/handouts
Great! Thank you for this info. I got stuck on your original post reference to bluevotersguide because of my own sensitivity to trying to not influence my great niece. Terrific variety of resources for all of us.
You are very welcome. I overlooked that this is an NC-centric substack. I generally don't mention "You can Vote" because it is strictly NC, so thank you for making me think of it as another nonpartisan resource.
I have just started conversation with my 19-year-old great-niece. She has expressed some interest in the election and I am trying to help her. However, I do not want to influence her vote so I am taking extreme care to help her to understand the importance of knowing both sides and not just vote for whomever she hears others are voting for. She needs to think about what issues are most important for her and find out which candidates emulate her views on those. As much as I want her to vote democrat down ballot, I am encouraging her to gather information and to make her own informed choices. If others here feel the same, a great non-partisan website is vote.org.
League of Women Voters is totally nonpartisan, in case that wasn't clear from my original post. It is a good starting point for any research a potential voter needs to feel confident about down-ballot races.
As for NC residents, also check out You Can Vote (https://www.youcanvote.org/). It is also nonpartisan. I especially like the "Who's on the Ballot?" and "What's on the Ballot?" handouts, both of which can be found here: https://www.youcanvote.org/handouts
Great! Thank you for this info. I got stuck on your original post reference to bluevotersguide because of my own sensitivity to trying to not influence my great niece. Terrific variety of resources for all of us.
Special thanks for NC info.
You are very welcome. I overlooked that this is an NC-centric substack. I generally don't mention "You can Vote" because it is strictly NC, so thank you for making me think of it as another nonpartisan resource.