Smart Voter is produced by a team of dedicated staff and volunteers of the League of Women Voters of California.

Our Smart Voter Central Team

Project Director:   Trudell Een*
Development:   Kathleen Weisenberg*, Roberta Hollimon*
Programmer:   Carl Hage
Webmaster:   Carol Watts*
Budget and Finances:   Roberta Hollimon*
Steering Committee member:   Sandy Eakins*
Publicity:   Nikki Harris*
Calif. Photo Editors:   Hal Hungerford, Bob Huddleston
Data Administrator:   Bob Huddleston
California State Coordinator:   Trudell Een
California Northern Liaison:   Bonnie Hamlin*
California Southern Liaison:   Frances Talbott-White*
Massachusetts State Coordinator:   Risa Nyman
Missouri State Coordinator: Mickey Croyle
Ohio State Coordinator:   Danielle Sabarese
New York State Coordinator:   Kris Hansen
Pennsylvania State Coordinator:   Olivia Thorne
LWV California Education Fund Board Liaison:   Sharon Wallace
LWV California President:   Janis Hirohama

* - Member of Steering Committee

In States and Counties

In every participating county in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, League volunteers contact candidates and add information to Smart Voter pages. A county coordinator orchestrates the activities of volunteers that assist candidates, arrange for media coverage and add information to Smart Voter pages, such as candidate forums and newspapers links. The coordinators also answer questions from visitors to the site and interact with county election officials.

CALIFORNIA

Some of our Smart Voter volunteers and government partners in the counties :

San Joaquin County Smart Voter team
Lydia Tinder, San Joaquin Smart Voter Coordinator, Bonnie Hamlin, Smart Voter Northen California Liaison, Austin Erdman, Assistant Registrar of Voters, and Debbie Hench, Registrar of Voters, San Joaquin County

San Diego County Smart Voter team
Row 1: May Grossnickle, Gail Tullao, Peggy Dornish. Row 2: Suzanne Carneiro, Joyce Joseph, Marietta Lassaline, Jackie Stone, Frances Talbott-White (Southern California Liaison). Peeking out the back: Anne Omsted, John Joseph.

Orange County Smart Voter team
Stan Miller, LWV Central Orange County; Frances Talbott-White, Smart Voter Southern California Liaison; Neal Kelley, Acting Registrar of Voters, Orange County; Angela Chen Lindstrom, Orange County Smart Voter Coordinator

Riverside County Smart Voter team
Trudell Een, Smart Voter Project Director; Barbara Dunmore, Registrar of Voters, Riverside County; Artemio Tinoco Jr., Elections Coordinator, Riverside County; Frances Talbott-White, Smart Voter Southern California Liaison; Joan Donahue, LWV Northwest Riverside

Kern County Smart Voter team
Lois Chaney, President, LWV Bakersfield; Frances Talbott-White, Southern Calif. Liaison; Lois Watson, Vice President, LWV Bakersfield; Leslie Arbegast, Kern County Coordinator

San Luis Obispo Smart Voter team
Vera Wallen, LWV SLO Coordinator; Marguerite Bader, President, LWV SLO County; Frances Talbott-White, Southern California Liaison; Julie Rodewald, SLO County Clerk Recorder; Janet Haley and Chuck Carey, SLO County Elections Office

Frances Talbott-White (right), Smart Voter Southern California Liaison, is being interviewed by Gayle Anderson, KTLA reporter, about Smart Voter in the Los Angeles county March 8, 2005 election.

MISSOURI

Missouri began working with Smart Voter in the February 5, 2008 primary election. Mickey Croyle, previously our Ohio state coordinator, moved from Cincinnati to St. Louis. She joined LWV St. Louis and is now their able state coordinator.

OHIO

Ohio has been working with Smart Voter since November 1998 primarily in Hamilton County (Cincinnati). Danielle Sabarese is the current coordinator.

NEW YORK

The Empire State started with Smart Voter for the November 7, 2006 election.

Westchester County, NY Smart Voter Team. Meet Anne Cochran, Claire Prohl, and Selma Thackery (left to right).

PENNSYLVANIA

Olivia Thorne is leading the team to use Smart Voter to cover elections in the state and in Delaware County. The first election was May 2007.

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