After the November 2024 Election, we created a survey to help us understand what resources voters found most helpful when making their voting choices. We put the word out on our social media channels, newsletters, website and on Yubanet, The Union, KNCO and KVMR. We received an impressive 68 responses, which will be a great help as we plan our election work in the future. Thank you to the community for your participation! Below are summaries of the results.
Below are randomly chosen responses out of 63 total for the open answer questions.
| What information was most helpful to you in determining how to vote in the 2024 election? (open answer) |
| State and Federal Voter Guides that were mailed. Fact checking disinformation and finding the actual truth prior to voting. Using reputable news and online sources. |
| The election booklet from the State of CA or County of Nevada- for the CA state propositions & local election candidates. |
| Reading candidate statements, reading proposed laws, list of pros and cons that come in the voter information guide |
| LWV and CalMatters information regarding candidate positions and proposition details. |
| My political party's communications. |
| In state and local elections, candidates list of objectives as well as what they have done in the past is very important to me. |
| The basic voter guide that shows the pros and cons of all propositions, candiates, etc. |
| Voters Information Guide with the propositions sent from Ca SOS. Candidate forums are very important. I was only able to attend one in person so the recordings were very valuable. |
| All of the above - I like to review numerous sources of information to enable my own critical thinking on any topic or candidate. |
| League of women’s voters |
| What were the challenges you had in getting the information you needed that we could address in the next election? (open answer) |
| Finding trustworthy news sources that are immune from deep-state & corp/gov influence |
| Information without legal talk and the confusion that goes with it. . A "yes" vote means this and a "no" vote means that. A person stands for "this" and is against "that". Plain and simple please. Don't complicate answers. |
| I'm a member, but didn't know you had ballot information on our local LWV website. |
| Leaning towards liberal Bias from this group which should be a neutral political group. |
| Be a positive voice against political disinformation |
| I was so disappointed not to see the state and federal candidates come for real live interviews.. |
| Highlighting how long candidates have lived here. Who/what special interests are behind candidates/propositions. Calling out lies/misinformation. |
| More discussion of ballot measures on local issues and local government impacts. Saturday Union discussion from County Supervisors forum addressed latter for first time. |
| driving voters to more resources that they can use to compare the various pros and cons. Perhaps publish the text of the forums or links to the written answers from candidates |
| No challenges; Thank you for your work! |
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