KNOW THIS ABOUT Project Vote Smart

I Vote Smart board members must join with a political opposite. Carter, Ford, Goldwater,

and McGovern are some who helped establish

the idea as civility crumbled.

I The staff, volunteers and interns refuse support from special interests and every

organization that supports or opposes

any issue or candidate.

I Staff and students serve from ten weeks to two year tours, and receive minimal salaries,

with most volunteering for no salary at all.

We need every thinking American: Volunteer if you can but if you cant, at least

help us with the materials, supplies and

technical equipment needed by filling out

and returning the enclosed form. Tolerance is

no longer our only option. This year give to

yourself and your country, not to the campaigns

which create fear, preferring to move people

emotionally instead of intellectually.

Brings truth to light on thousands of candidates and elected officials

Biographies

Interest Group Ratings

Public Statements

Voting Records

Issue Positions

Campaign Finances

I VOTEEASY I Powerful, interactive, instant research tool matching the candidate most like you

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For a taste of power, try VOTEEASY n automated interactive research tool. Type in your zip code and every presidential or congressional candidates lawn sign will instantly appear. Then just state your position on key issues and watch as each sign moves to support you or oppose you. If you question the movement, just click on the sign and see their public record. It will show if your candidates answer key issue questions. It is fun powerful stuff.

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The 2011 Webvisonary Awards (Web Academy Awards) selects VoteEasy as the best there is.

THE MOST COMPELLING VOTER INFO resource ever seen. GovTrackThe New York Museum of Modern Art displays VoteEasy as THE election tool to make sense of complex facts.

THINK OF VoteEasy as the eHarmony of political web sites. Sacramento Bee

Headquarters: One Common Ground, Philipsburg, MT 59858-9767 Tel: 406-859-VOTE (406-859-8683) Fax: 406-859-8680

Hotline: 888-VOTESMART (888-868-3762) Website: www.votesmart.org

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This is Project Vote Smart

Ron Reagan, Bill Moyers, and the Ford and Carnegie foundations have all celebrated its birth. Vote Smart is what U.S. News and World Report says, Would make the Founders weep with joy. What better antidote to the irresponsibility and loss of civility that now plagues our political parties and representatives? With backing from over 100,000 citizens, 7000 students and volunteers have donated their time and expertise to build it. Detailed facts on 40,000 political leaders are all instantly available free to every American over a simple-to-use web site or through a personal researcher on our toll-free Voters Research Hotline.

It is the smart side of a peoples rebellion, the Peoples right to the facts. Please help us if you can by coming to volunteer at our Great Divide Ranch research center or becoming a contributing member. But even if you cant, please USE US to defend yourself, your family, and your fellow Americans right to the facts.

Vote Smarts Great Divide Ranch research retreat in Montana

he most uplifting political event of our lifetime: thousands of citizens joining together to protect themselves and their fellow Americans from the manipulative nonsense that poisons our civic culture. This is what makes us all so apprehensive about our nations future.

The cure to this dishonorable conduct is one you must have dreamed of yourself: Bring truth to light through a Voters Self-Defense System so secure, independent and true, any citizen -- conservative or liberal -- can turn to it in absolute confidence for the facts. A place of abundant, accurate, relevant information about those who govern or those who wish to replace those who do.

Less than half of todays candidates respond to voters questions. As one national party leader typically said when asked why, It is not our job to educate, it is our job to win! Vote Smart has begun the task of dragging their politics out of the mud fact by fact. Organizations asdiverse as CNN, Fox News, MTV, the New York Times, NBC,

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Extraordinary People at an Extraordinary Place

the Voters Self-Defense

SystemA GIFT TO OUR FELLOW AMERICANS

Get the facts: Presidential, Congressional, Gubernatorial and State Legislatures

I Voting Records Every vote they have cast, by issue area in easy-to-understand terms.

I Biographies Who they are and what they have done.

I Issue Positions Every candidates willingness to give straight answers to straight questions,

exposed in our Political Courage Test.

I Campaign Finances Who gives them the money to run?

I Interest Group Ratings Every liberal-to-conservative selfish interest rates your state and national representatives.

I Public Statements Every public utterance placed in a key word searchable database. Instantly see what

they have said on any issue.

All at www.votesmart.org OR CALL 888-VOTESMART