Spotlight on CVF

Below is a collection of news stories profiling the work of the California Voter Foundation, including links to the original stories online, many of which are no longer operatative.

• Letter: Gov. Brown, don’t make it easier to meddle in our elections, Sacramento Bee, October 1, 2017 (Full story)

• Congressional Hearings Focus on State Election Hacks: KQED’s John Sepulvedo's interview with Kim Alexander regarding California voting security, The California Report, June 19, 2017

• The Future of Voting in California, KQED, November 3, 2016 (Audio)

• How to vote when you don't know what you're voting for, ABC10, November 2, 2016 (Full Story)

• 5 Ways To Have (A Little) Fun With The November Ballot, KPBS, October 31, 2016 (Video)

• How to Make Sure Your Vote-by-Mail Ballot Is Counted, KQED, October 31, 2016 (Full story)

• Do Voters Care About Down-Ballot Races?, KQED, October 21, 2016 (Audio)

• Hack the Vote - Making Voting Easier, Public Forum hosted by KPCC Radio, Pasadena, July 13, 2016 (Video)

• Advocate Sees Dysfunctional Voting System in California, KQED, June 8, 2016 (Audio)

• What you need to know about the upcoming election -- KCRA Gulstan Dart and Kim Alexander with cavoter.org have the details, KCRA, May 31, 2016 (Video)

• Commentary: 10 things California should do to modernize elections and increase voter turnout, California Forward, March 14, 2016

• What You Need to Know About San Mateo’s New All-Mail Election, KQED Radio, October 13, 2015 (Audio)

• Nine Years Later, California Gets New Voter Registration System, California Public Radio, July 22, 2015 (Audio)

• Verifying ballots is key to making them count, Ventura County Star, November 12, 2014

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on KPCC to dicsuss Ballot Propositions, November 3, 2014 (Audio)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on KXJZ to dicsuss Ballot Propositions And Campaign Finance, Octoer 30, 2014 (Audio)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on KXJZ to dicsuss Mail-In Ballots Going Uncounted, Octoer 10, 2014 (Audio)

• How to Make Sure Your Vote-by-Mail Ballot is Counted, by Lisa Pickoff-White, KQED, August 21, 2014 (Audio)

• Late arrival, missing signatures voided many California mail ballots, study finds, by Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee, August 20, 2014

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on Insight (KXJZ) to dicsuss Vote-by-Mail study, August 20, 2014 (Audio)

• Viewpoints: Voters had reasons to skip California primary, by Kim Alexander, Sacramento Bee, June 7, 2014

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on Insight (KXJZ) to dicsuss Initiative Refom, November 6, 2013 (Audio)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on Insight (KXJZ) to dicsuss Initiative Refom, October 9, 2013 (Audio)

• Lawmakers stick locals with costs of voting, Op-ed by Kim Alexander, The Sacramento Bee, June 20, 2013

• I. In Focus This Week, Electionline Weekly December 6, 2012

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on Bloomberg TV to dicsuss the upcoming California elections, November 5, 2012 (Video)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on KQED to dicsuss the upcoming California elections, November 5, 2012 (Audio)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on KCRW to dicsuss the upcoming California elections, June 4, 2012 (Audio)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on KALW to dicsuss the upcoming California elections, May 31, 2012 (Audio)

• California Open Primary Around the Corner - What it Means to Voters - CVF President Kim Alexander's interview with KXTV-10 Sacramento's Dan Elliott, May 9, 2012 (Video)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on KCRA to discuss the Mail-In Ballots and the upcoming California elections, February 21, 2012 (Video)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on Fox News to dicuss the state's selling email addresses to campaigns, February 6, 2012 (Video)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on KPBS to dicuss the upcoming California elections, January 9, 2012 (Audio)

• Patt Morrison Asks: Balloteer Kim Alexander, Los Angeles Times, Sepetember 17, 2011

• The Pew Center on the States' Electionline Weekly published a "sneak peek" of the findings of a research project the California Voter Foundation (CVF) and the Center for Governmental Studies have been working on throughout most of this past year, examining the content and tools available on state election web sites., December 23, 2010

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared in the Sac 100, Sacramento News & Review's guide to the most interesting people in the region, December 9, 2010

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on KQED-FM (San Francisco, CA) to discuss the Changing Face of California Elections, November 1, 2010 (Audio)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on the radio program California Report (KQED-FM, San Francisco, CA) to discuss the November Ballot Measures, June 25, 2010 (Audio)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on KCRA to dicuss the June 8, 2010 Primary Election, June 7, 2010 (video)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on Capital Public Radio's Insight show with Jeffrey Callison on Thursday, May 14, ,2009 to discuss "Funding the Propositions".

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on the News10 online chat program Live_Online to discuss the May 19, 2009 Special Election, May 11, 2009

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on the radio program Radio News (KQED) to discuss Postage for Absentee Ballots, October 23, 2008 (Audio)

• You're Trusted Not to Cheat at the Polls, Live_Online (News10, Sacramento), October 20, 2008

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on the radio program Day to Day (National Public Radio) to discuss Gavin Newsom's campaign announcement, July 2, 2008 (Audio)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on the radio program California Report (KQED-FM, San Francisco, CA) as part of the California Songs series, November 3, 2006 (Audio)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on the radio program Morning Edition (KAZU-FM, Monterey, CA) to discuss the upcoming general election, October 27, 2006 (Audio)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on the radio program California Report (KQED-FM, San Francisco) to discuss the Proposition 87 web address controversy, August 24, 2006 (Audio)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on the radio program Insight (KXJZ-FM, Sacramento) to discuss the upcoming primary election, May 16, 2006 (Audio)

• Changes behind scenes in voting, The Argus, May 5, 2006

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on the Tom Sullivan Show (KFBK-AM, Sacramento), November 8, 2005 (Audio)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on the radio program Insight to discuss the California Map Series, March 2, 2005

• CVF President Kim Alexander is one of News 10's "Good People", October 26, 2004, (Video)

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared on "Insight" (KXJZ Radio program), September 23, 2004

• CVF President Kim Alexander addressed the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, July 7, 2004

• CVF President Kim Alexander appeared a guest on "Next@CNN", September 15, 2003

• CVF's voting technology work was featured on PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, September 15, 2003

• "UCSB alum builds clearinghouse for democracy: California Voter Foundation is a one-stop shop for political information", Tri-County Business and Technology Review, April 2002

• "In the spirit of all that campaign word-twisting", by Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2002

• "The Voter's Friend", Sacramento News & Review, May 24, 2001

• CVF President Kim Alexander is a guest on NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terri Gross, November 28, 2000 (Audio)

• "Foundation helps educate the voters", Davis Enterprise, October 24, 2000

• "This song goes out to all the propositions out there", by Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, February 22, 2000

• "Innovator redefines California's politics on Net", Philanthropy News Network, September 3, 1999

• "Kim Alexander and the California Voter Foundation", by Max Vanzi for the California Journal, March, 1999

• "A New Guard Emerges: Savvy, pragmatic young leaders are reshaping the non-profit world", Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 14, 1999

• "Making of an e-celebrity", by Steve Scott for Intellectual Capital, September 10, 1998

• A New Kind of Party Animal: How the Young are Tearing up the American Political Landscape, A book by Michele Mitchell with a chapter on CVF President Kim Alexander, published by Simon & Schuster, July 1998

• "The Tube, the Web and the Voter", by Jack Kavanaugh, for Political Pulse, February 1998

• "Campaign finance reform goes public -- Kim Alexander is leading a crusade to electrify the electorate", by Rob Riddell, The Web Magazine, October, 1997

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