Secretary of State announces 2018 Quick Guide to Props Tool

Last week, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced the relaunch of the free, online “Quick Guide to Props” tool for voters.

“Quick Guide to Props” provides voters a helpful list of the top 10 campaign contributions, funding totals for each of the five statewide propositions, as well as a brief nonpartisan analysis.

Information available in the “Quick Guide to Props” includes:

• Summaries of each ballot measure written by the Attorney General’s Office;

• Fundraising data depicted in bar charts of the total funds raised by all committees primarily formed for and against a proposition. This information is based on data from Power Search and analysis by the Secretary of State’s Political Reform Division;

• The 10 largest contributions during the 2017-18 election cycle to committees formed primarily for and against each proposition;

• What a “yes” and “no” vote means for each proposition, written by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office; and

• Arguments for and against each proposition submitted by the proposition’s proponents and opponents.

The campaign finance elements are updated daily. This tool was developed in 2016 in partnership with MapLight, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that tracks money in politics.

To view the Quick Guide to Props, visit: http://quickguidetoprops.sos.ca.gov/.