This voter guide provides Nevada voters with information on candidates and ballot initiatives for the 2010 midterm elections. It outlines key issues like healthcare, housing, jobs, education, immigration and more. It explains the roles of Governor and Senator and lists candidates running for those offices. The guide also provides details on how to register to vote, find your polling place, vote early or absentee, and check your registration status. It seeks to empower young voters by giving them the essential information they need to cast an informed ballot.

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2010 MidterM elections vOTeR GuIDe
What is the voter guide?
On November 2nd, the mid-term elections will be held all across America.
You will decide who will represent you in Congress and in your State
Capitol. Do you know who is running to represent you? Do you know
where they stand on issues that will affect your everyday life?
If not, don't worry… we got your back: This voter guide tells you what you
need to know before you step in the voting booth.
What's at stake?
Real talk, we are all struggling to answer some basic questions about our lives:
accessible & Comprehensive take on predatory lenders and de-
health Care velopers, and provide emergency
housing for people in crisis.
Can i see a doctor?
We believe high quality physical Climate Justice
and mental health care, including & Clean energy
full reproductive health services and
prescription drugs, is a right and must Can we survive?
be affordable and accessible to all. Real talk: Its now or never. We
should be a leader in building a
affordable & clean energy future. This will cre-
accessible housing ate millions of new jobs, improve
Can i have a place to live? our health, and avoid future wars.
We believe decent, safe, accessible We need to get serious switching
and affordable housing is a right from dirty coal and nuclear power
for all. The government should to wind and solar energy.

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healthy Jobs & economy safety in our World
Can i make a decent living? Can we have real peace and
We believe workers, the backbone safety?
of this country, have a right to paid Real national security comes from
sick days and a living family wage. being a respected and respectful
Workers should have the right to member of the global community.
organize without fear. This is how This means ending torture and other
we revive the middle class and al- human rights abuses. It also means
leviate poverty. ending the war in Iraq and offering
strategic humanitarian relief.
Quality & affordable education
Can i go to college without being voting rights &
in debt for the rest of my life? election reform
We believe every young person Can i vote? Will my vote be
in this country has the right to a counted? What's up with politicians
high-quality, affordable education trying to make it harder for us to
from pre-school through college. vote? Why can't i register and vote
on the same day, like my friends in
rights for New americans Minnesota and Wisconsin? Can i be
Can i be treated with respect sure my vote is counted?
regardless of where i was born? We believe voting is a right for
Immigration policy should not all citizens, including students
criminalize people for seeking attending college out of state,
a better life. We are a nation of felons, and people who need
immigrants and diversity is our special help to participate. We
strength. We need fair and hu- support public financing to take
mane immigration reform that money out of politics. We oppose
keeps families together, offers ID requirements and other
pathways to citizenship, fair com- discriminatory barriers to voting.
pensation, and basic services like
health care and college loans.
safe Communities
Can i feel safe on my street?
Building more prisons doesn’t
make us safer. Instead of our generation
spending $40,000 a year is facing a critical moment
locking someone up, that will define our country for
we should invest in job years to come. as a coalition of new
training, education voters, we were a huge factor in both
counselors, drug rehab 2006 and 2008. We will be the difference
and programs that lift again in this election! too much is at stake in
people up. We must this election to sit this out… get to know where
take the safety of the candidates stand on our issues, then get
women seriously in out and vote on November 2nd!
our homes and on
the streets. We’ve got this and other non partisan
voter guides online, so check us out at
www.generationalalliance.org — share it
with your friends, send to your mom.

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In our state, there are ballot initiatives that put crucial decisions
on important issues in the hands of the voters in the state. In
the upcoming election there are 4 ballot initiatives in Nevada
but none of them have a direct impact on us. If you want the
full list you can check out Nevada’s board of elections page.
In order to know who you want to vote for, you need to
know what they’re responsible for. Then you can check
out how they stand on the issues you care about. We’ve
highlighted two races but to see all the races check out
Nevada’s board of elections page.
the goverNor: Who’s running?
• Oversees all public related op- david s. Curtis
erations (I.e. paying taxes, cars Green Party
(DMv), construction, education, www.curtis4governor.com
legal matters, law enforcement) 702-475-3885
• Communicates directly with the eugene g. disimone
state legislature Independent
No Website Found
• Accounts for all state money
775-544-2765
received and spent
Floyd Fitzgibbons
• Appoints certain officers as re-
Independent American Party
quired by the state constitution
www.fitzgibbonsforgovernor.com
and statutes and fills vacancies
702-873-1315
in state offices
aaron Y. honig
• Signs or vetoes bills passed by
Independent
the Legislature
www.aaronyhonig.com
• Calls elections to fill vacancies for 702-699-3372
members of the u.S. Congress
arthur F. Lampitt Jr.
• Issues requisitions for the return Libertarian Party
of accused persons www.artforgov.com
775-581-1111
• Enforces all criminal laws

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rory reid Who’s running?
Democratic Party
www.roryreid.com sharron angle
702-258-2010 Republican Party
Brian e. sandoval www.sharronangle.com
Republican Party 775-787-6017
www.briansandoval.com scott ashjian
702-360-2010
Tea Party
seNators: www.scottashjianforsenate.com
Phone Number Not Listed
• Draft, introduce and sponsor
new bills timothy Fasano
• Debate and pass bills to go Independent American Party
before the President vetoes or www.fasano2010.com
signs them into law 775-835-6136
• Advocate and work to prioritize Michael haines
the issues most important to
Independent
their constituents
www.michaellhaines.com
The Senate collectively has the 562-303-0281
power to:
Jesse holland
• Investigate pressing national issues
Independent
• Supervise the actions of the
www.hollandforsenate.com
judicial and executive branches
775-777-9350
of government
• Confirm or rejecting treaties Jeffrey reeves
initiated by the President Independent
• Confirm any Presidential ap- www.reeves4congress.com
pointments (Supreme Court 702-487-8868
judges, Attorney General etc) harry reid
• Try any federal official accused Democratic Party
of a crime after the House votes www.harryreid.com
to impeach that official 702-522-9840
• Filibuster during debates on
Wil stand
bills- a filibuster is when an in-
dividual Senator can choose to Independent
delay or entirely prevent a vote No Website Found
on a bill No Phone Number Listed

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ing will be held and where one’s
Nevada election polling place is on election day.
Protection information • The County Clerk/Registrar of
If you need more information Voters’ office website (Can be
about election rules and regula- found through the Secretary of
tions contact your County elec- State) has information and can
tions Official or the Secretary of verify voter registration if you
State at: http://www.nvsos.gov do not receive a sample ballot.
or the 866 Ourvote Website at: absentee voting
http://www.866ourvote.org a Any registered voter may request
resource created by the Lawyers’ to vote by mail. To request an
Committee for Civil Rights under absentee ballot, you must com-
Law and its partners. plete and submit an absent ballot
Polling Place hours request form, which you can get
election Day: November 2, 2010 from your local County elections
7am to 7pm Official. If you are a resident of
Clark County, you may obtain
how to Check registration the form from their website at:
• Call 1-866-OUR-VOTE http://www.accessclarkcounty.
• Check the County Elections Of- com. The absent ballot request
ficial’s website. form must be received by your
local county election official by
identification required to vote the appropriate deadline. 2010
If you did not show ID when you General election Absent Ballot
registered to vote, you must show request deadline for registered
ID when you vote for the first time. voters is October 26th. All absen-
Acceptable forms of ID include: a tee ballots must be received by 7
voter registration card; a Nevada p.m. on election Day in order to
drivers license or state identifica- be counted.
tion card; a military identification
early voting
card; any other form of govern-
ment issued identification card; a All registered voters may vote
current utility bill, bank statement, early in person between October
government check or paycheck; 16th and October 29th for this
or any other form of government election at the County Clerk’s
document with the individual’s Office or at temporary polling

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places to be established by the ously lived even if you have not
County Clerk. All registered vot- re-registered your new address
ers may also vote early by mail by with the County Registrar by the
applying for an absentee ballot registration deadline. You only
no later than October 26th. An have to provide an oral or writ-
application for an absentee ballot ten affirmation stating your new
must be submitted to the voter’s address to the poll worker at your
local County Clerk’s Office. Please old precincts’ polling site to be
note that all absent ballots must entitled to vote a regular ballot at
be received by 7pm on election that polling site.
Day in order to be counted.
information for People with
information For People who have Felony Convictions
Moved or Changed addresses
Felons who have not been
You should re-register to vote when: restored to their civil rights are
• You move not eligible to register and vote;
however, recent legislation has
• You change your name
provided for automatic restora-
• You change your political party tion of the right to vote for those
choice who have been honorably dis-
If you are already registered to charged from prison, probation
vote but have since moved within or parole, with certain exceptions
the same precinct, or from one related to the seriousness of
precinct to another within the the crime committed. For more
same county, or from one con- information, visit the Nevada Sec-
gressional district to another retary of State website, or visit:
within the same county, you have http://866ourvote.org website
the right to vote by regular ballot to download a Nevada election
in the precinct where you previ- Protection Manual.

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