Primary Election Day in GA

It is primary election day in Georgia, and do you know who your candidates are? Primary elections are notoriously low-profile and confusing for voters, which explains their traditionally low turnout rate. Here are a few tools for those of you who are motivated to get informed about the candidates in today's elections.

1. An interactive voter guide by the AJC and League of Women Voters. Here, you can customize the ballot by zip code/address and by political party. The LWV questionnaires filled out by the candidates are available for side-by-side comparison for each race. At the end, you can print out your sample ballot to bring with you to the polling place.

2. PolitiFact Georgia, the Georgia edition of PolitiFact.com, attempts to sort through the political rhetoric by labeling political claims made by politicians on their "Truth-O-Meter" somewhere between "true" and "false" - including "half true," "mostly true" and "barely true."

3. For local information, the Athens Banner-Herald has its Election Central webpage, which is quite simple compared to the AJC. It mainly lists the candidates by race and includes some basic information (age, education, campaign website). However, the sidebar lists recent election articles by the ABH, many of which have a local flavor.

Happy Voting!