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2024 Election Ballot Sample
Ballots are specific to voters. Please log in to your voter portal to view your sample ballot through the site below:
https://champaigncountyclerk.com/elections/my-voting-information/my-sample-ballot
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Researching Candidates
The resources listed below are meant to assist in researching candidates and candidates' stances on issues in local, state, and federal elections in the United States.
- BallotpediaIn addition to information on politics and policy, Ballotpedia offers information on local, state, and federal elections.
- "I Side With. . ." Voting Guide"I Side With..." provides a quiz to help voters find out which candidates best match their values. This website also includes information about various popular issues, political data, polls and election data, and state voting guides.
- Vote SmartVote Smart provides information on candidates and elected officials, such as their biographical information, voting records, positions on issues, interest-group ratings, public statements, and funding.
- Candidate Guide by Vote ChampaignVote Champaign, a nonpartisan organization, creates a candidate information guide featuring all contested candidates running in Champaign County before every election, including municipal elections.
Research Tools
These research tools are useful for learning more about specific issues, finding data, and fact-checking information.
- U.S. Politics and Policy by Topic (Pew Research Center)Pew Research Center provides information about a variety of political and policy-related topics.
- PolitiFact Truth-o-MeterPolitiFact's Truth-o-Meter provides fact-checking of statements made by politicians to determine accuracy.
- FactCheck.orgCreated by The Annenberg Public Policy Center, FactCheck.org is a nonpartisan, nonprofit project designed to help monitor factual accuracy of major U.S. politicians and to reduce the spread of misinformation.
- Open Secrets: Campaign Finance DataCreated by the Center for Responsive Politics (a nonpartisan and independent nonprofit), Open Secrets researches and tracks money in government. Additionally, the website also includes a "LEARNING CENTER" with basic information about money in politics and offers news stories related to campaign finance.
- Public Agenda - Resources PagePublic Agenda offers three types of resources: reports on topics related to health, education, and democracy; Public Agenda survey data since 1979 that can be searched; and "Guides & Toolkits" that discuss issues and offer information, suggestions, and resources related to various issues, such as political divisiveness, immigration, and healthcare.