Project Vote Smart

Project Vote Smart

"In a very real sense the need for Project Vote Smart was born during the Constitutional Convention. Concerned that unbridled power would corrupt, that "factions" might deform their vision and turn it to serve selfish interests, and that an informed people was essential to success, the founders adopted a number of administrative protections chief amongst them a system of checks and balances and the Bill of Rights."

2008 Executive Board
Accessed November 2008:


 * Jessica Arrigoni, Board Chair
 * Richard Kimball, President
 * Susan Brandes, Secretary/Treasurer
 * Adelaide Elm Kimball
 * Kyle Dell
 * Dan O'Neill
 * Brent Steel
 * Jon Trachta

Founding Board
Accessed November 2008:


 * Jessica Arrigoni, Board Chair - Educator
 * Susan Brandes, Secretary/Treasurer - Community Activist
 * Richard Kimball, President - President, Project Vote Smart
 * Kenneth Adelman - Director, US Arms Control & Disarmament Agency, Reagan Administration
 * Edward Brooke - Former US Senator
 * Thomas Chandler - Attorney
 * William Clinger - Former US Representative
 * Marvin Cohen - Former FAA Chair Civil Aeronautical Board Carter/Reagan
 * Kyle Dell - Professor of Political Science
 * William Lacy Clay, Jr. - US Representative
 * Michael Dukakis - Former Governor of Massachusetts
 * John Echohawk - Native American Rights Fund
 * Adelaide Elm Kimball - Historian
 * Chaka Fattah - US Representative
 * Geraldine Ferraro - Former US Representative
 * George McGovern - Former US Senator
 * Irene Natividad - Former President, Nat'l Women's Political Caucus
 * Dan O'Neill - Attorney
 * Philip Robbins - Attorney
 * Gordon H. Smith - US Senator
 * Claudine Schneider - Former US Representative
 * Pat Schroeder - Association of American Publishers, Inc.
 * Brent Steel - Professor of Political Science
 * John E. Sununu - US Senator
 * Lewis Tambs - Political Scientist
 * Jon Trachta - Attorney
 * Bill Frenzel - Former US Representative
 * Bill Frist - US Senator
 * Newt Gingrich - Former US Representative
 * John Hagelin - Presidential Candidate for Natural Law party
 * Sonia Jarvis - Former Ex Director, Nat'l Coalition on Black Voter Participation
 * Marianne Jennings - Professor of Business Law
 * Barbara Kennelly - Former US Representative
 * Henry Kenski & Margaret Kenski - Professor and Political Consultant
 * Peggy Lampl - Former Executive Director, League of Women Voters
 * Jim Leach - US Representative
 * Barbara Lee - US Representative
 * Charles Mathias - Former US Senator

Contact

 * Web: http://www.votesmart.org