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

Senior Director:   Ernie Ting*
Development:   Kathleen Weisenberg*
Senior Programmer:   Carl Hage
Webmaster:   Carol Watts*
Budget and Finances:   Roberta Hollimon*
Strategy:   Sandy Eakins*
Former Project Director:   Trudell Een*
Communications:   Nikki Harris*, Elizabeth Leslie, Jenny Waggoner
Calif. Photo Editor:   Alice Loughry
California State Technical Coordinator:   Laura Grybos
California Northern Liaison:   Bonnie Hamlin*
California Southern Liaison:   Frances Talbott-White*
Massachusetts State Coordinator:   Jo-Ann Berry
Missouri State Coordinator: Mickey Croyle
Ohio State Coordinator:   Linda Wihl
New York State Coordinator:   Stephanie Lopez
Pennsylvania State Coordinator:   Olivia Thorne
LWV California Education Fund Board Liaison:   Thea Brodkin
LWV California President:   Janis Hirohama

* - Member of Steering Committee

Front row: Jenny Waggoner, Laura Grybos, Bonnie Hamlin
Back row: Ernie Ting, Jackie Jacobberger, Sandy Eakins, Nikki Harris, Carol Watts, Roberta Hollimon, Kathleen Weisenberg, Carl Hage

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 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
Left to right: Nancy McCleary, Suzanne Carneiro, Gail Tullao, Joyce Joseph (Coordinator), Judy Seerey, Marietta Lassaline, John Joseph, Muriel Filman, Ann Heuton, Eddie Cisco, & Lisa Hamann

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. Linda Wihl (left) is the coordinator; Melissa Currence (right) is the LWV Cincinnati Voter Service Director.

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.

Join the Team

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