• California League of Women Voters offers Easy Voter Guides in multiple languages, nonpartisan explanations of ballot measures, and information on polling places and local elections, http://ca.lwv.org
  
  
• Early Learning on the Campaign Trail, from Preschool California, provides resources for talking with candidates about early learning issues, www.preschoolcalifornia.org/take-action/2010.html
  
  
• Mobilize the Immigrant Vote helps the immigrant community mobilize around elections, http://mivcalifornia.org/docs/MOVE_Toolkit
  
  
• Why should I vote? A comic flyer from the Children’s Advocate for parents and people who care about kids, English and Spanish, www.4children.org/issues/2008/september_october/why_should_i_vote

Register to vote by October 18.

Extra resources from the Children’s Advocate bulletin 

• Vote Kids offers a scorecard on how members of Congress voted on bills affecting children, including health insurance, the budget, and stimulus funds. http://www.votekids.org/?page_id=1714
  
  
• The Californians for the Support of Early Education Political Action Committee is supporting two candidates for legislature as well as voter registration in three areas where candidate races are key to early care and education issues. CSEE also offers a tool kit for effective advocacy on behalf on early care and education. http://www.supportearlyed.org/
  
  
• EdSource offers information about how candidate races and ballot measures might affect education, in particular the races for Governor and Superintendent of Public Instruction.
  http://www.edsource.org/sys_election_nov2010.html
  
  
• The California Budget Project offers nonpartisan analyses of several ballot measures, including Propositions 21, 22, 24, 25, and 26. http://www.cbp.org/publications/ballot_prop_land.html
  
  

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