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Care to share the LA guide?

• slg 2y ago
  I'm happy to share it, but I'll admit I didn't include the name in my original comment because the source will get some people riled up. I was referring to the guide from LA's chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.[1] I think it stands up as an example of an extremely well put together guide regardless of your political affiliation. As a progressive person, I used a combination of that and The Knock LA's voter guide[2] to get the progressive perspective and then I combined that with Ballotpedia[3] to get a non-partisan view, see more mainstream endorsements, and campaign finance details (California often has too many confusing ballot measures, so when in doubt looking at who paid how much to support a proposition is my usual tiebreaker). [1] - https://dsa-la.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/DSA-LA-2024-General-Election-Voter-Guide.pdf https://dsa-la.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/DSA-LA-2024-Ge... [2] - https://knock-la.com/the-knock-la-progressive-voter-guide-for-the-november-2024-general-election/ https://knock-la.com/the-knock-la-progressive-voter-guide-fo... [3] - https://ballotpedia.org/California_elections,_2024 https://ballotpedia.org/California_elections,_2024
  • daisystanton 2y ago
    Yeah, love these. In my ideal world we'll add icons for things like "does this need to be a proposition" (i.e. bond-funded measures; some pension props), a visual indicator of the $$ at stake (state/municipal assessment if necessary), progress bars for how much campaign money was spent on each prop/candidate (a nice proxy for how contentious something is). What other metadata do you think could be useful?