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ELECTIONS

WEBSITES
 
Local (City/County/State)
  • ShelbyVote.com: Official website for the Shelby County Election Commission. Includes Voting Precinct Locator (city, county, state, and federal) and information on polling places, candidates, voter registration, and election dates for Shelby County and local municipalities, including Memphis, Bartlett, Millington, and others.
  • Coalition for a Better Memphis: Coalition for a Better Memphis is an independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit organization composed of a diverse group of Shelby County individuals, businesses and organizations. The site offers information to educate citizens and enable them to more effectively participate in the process of making Memphis and Shelby County a better place to live and work.
  • Tennessee Department of State - Division of Elections: Includes information on candidates, election dates, voter registration and more.

General

  • CampaignMoney.com: The purpose of campaignmoney.com, a non-partisan web site, is to make available in the easiest way possible the names of financial donors to federal political campaigns. These records are a matter of public record provided by the Federal Election Commission.
  • CQ Election Forecast Map: The interactive CQ Election Forecast Map displays Congressional Quarterly's trusted ranking of each House, Senate and gubernatorial race and provides easy access to recent CQPolitics.com news stories, demographic information, Census data, and electoral history. 
  • Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoonists Index: Index to political cartoons published in the U.S. and abroad. accessible through a list of current topics, or searchable by keyword, date, artist.
  • FactCheck.org: Nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. Monitors factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.
  • Federal Election Commission: The FEC discloses campaign finance information, to enforce provisions of the law such as the limits and prohibitions on contributions, and to oversee the public funding of Presidential elections.
  • Living Room Candidate: Online archive of television advertisting from all presidential campaigns of the television era.
  • Project Vote Smart: Non-partisan guide to current elected officials and candidates.
  • VOTE411.org: Launched by the League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF) in October of 2006, VOTE411.org is a "one-stop-shop" for election related information. It provides nonpartisan information to the public with both general and state-specific information on many aspects of the election process.