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> Not sure how much we're paying for the voter guides, but I do know they are effectively useless. You get like a paragraph summary of the measure that offers no nuance, and maybe a sentence or two of hyper-biased For and Against statements.

That's just the “Quick Reference” section at the front. In the main body, the summary of, for example, prop. 14 is page 16 through about the midpoint of page 20, considerably more detail than a paragraph. The for-and-against arguments are about a page and a half. And, of course, the full text of the measure is also included.

Ahh perhaps I am mistaken and only remembered the Quick Reference. Do you know if midterm election guides also include all of that?

> Do you know if midterm election guides also include all of that?

Midterm (or even primary) elections have the same kind of material on ballot props; they differ only in which candidates are up for election and which stage of the election they are in, but that's not really germane to statewide ballot props.

Thanks, just looked at the SOS site and the CA voter guide is 112 pages long...

https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2020/general/pdf/complete-vig.pdf

Are there any good neutral sites that break these down (including funding sources)?