MapLight Voter's Edge Widgets Now Available for All CA Ballot Propositions

MapLight Voter's Edge Widgets Now Available for All CA Ballot Propositions
Funding Data Automatically Updates Weekly through Oct. 22, then Daily through Nov. 6

Sept. 19, 2012—BERKELEY, CA—MapLight Voter's Edge embeddable widgets showing the latest funding information for all California ballot propositions are now available for public use. The widgets can be customized to show a slideshow of propositions, or a single proposition, and they include the largest contributor and total amount of contributions in support of and in opposition to a ballot proposition. The widget links to the ballot proposition page on MapLight Voter's Edge and can be easily embedded on your website and shared via social media. If you need technical assistance, please let us know.

The campaign finance data for MapLight Voter's Edge, a nonpartisan guide to ballot measures, and the MapLight Voter's Edge Widget has been updated to reflect all electronic filings of contributions to California's ballot propositions through September 16, 2012. Funding data source: CA Secretary of State - Cal-Access.

Click here to view a spreadsheet with pivot tables highlighting top contributors to all, and individual, ballot propositions from January 1, 2011 to September 16, 2012.

VOTER'S EDGE WIDGETS FOR PROPOSITIONS 30 (YES), 38 (YES), 32 (NO), & 37 (NO):

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Click here to view all MapLight Voter's Edge Widgets for Calfornia.

Click here to view the Voter's Edge Widget on the website of our Voter's Edge Florida partner, Florida Center for Investigative Reporting.

The MapLight Voter's Edge project for California's ballot propositions was made possible in part by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation. The purpose of MapLight Voter's Edge is to provide a reliable, nonpartisan source for information about California's ballot propositions. MapLight Voter's Edge will soon be available in Spanish. MapLight Voter's Edge shows each proposition's Funding Data—a top 10 list of contributors for and against and breakdowns by individual, industry, and geographic origin; Summary Information—what a "YES" or a "NO" vote would mean; the projected financial impact of the proposition; campaign arguments by proponents and opponents; Endorsements; News; Editorials; and Advertisements.

Producers, News Directors, Editors, and Reporters: Funding data will now update weekly on Tuesday, then daily beginning October 22. If you cite campaign finance data from the MapLight Voter's Edge site, please credit MapLight: A MapLight analysis of campaign contribution data from the Secretary of State - Cal-Access, or something similar, thank you. Links to the MapLight Voter's Edge site are sincerely appreciated. Please contact MapLight directly if you have a custom data request or you would like our researchers to check the Secretary of State's website for campaign finance data updates before your story airs or goes to print. Feel free to send news articles and editorials written about California's ballot propositions for inclusion in the Voter's Edge "News" and "Editorials" sections. We will provide links from your article back to your website. If you wish to be removed from the media list, please respond to this email with "REMOVE" in the subject line.

A link to this press release can be found here.

MapLight is a nonpartisan political money tracker.

Partners: MapLight will be expanding Voter's Edge to additional states and cities in partnership with state and local media outlets and community groups across the country. If you are interested in working with MapLight to bring Voter's Edge to your state, county, or city, please contact Jay Costa: jay@maplight.org.

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