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About Mitali Perkins

Mitali Perkins is the author of Ambassador Families: Equipping Your Kids to Engage Popular Culture (Brazos Press). She studied Political Science at Stanford University and Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley, and has written for Christianity Today, Discipleship Journal, Campus Life, With, Prism, War Cry, U.S. Catholic, and other periodicals. Mitali also writes fiction for young readers, including Monsoon Summer (Random House), The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen (Little Brown), Rickshaw Girl (Charlesbridge), and the First Daughter books (Dutton). She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and twin sons.

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Monday, February 04, 2008

Don't Know How You'll Vote?

This election, geeks are jamming the web with tools to inform us about the candidates and their positions. Five websites in particular can help even the most undecided voter make a choice. These are nonpartisan resources, and user-friendly for teens and adults alike.

Expert Voter (www.expertvoter.org): Provides a handy-dandy one page matrix of clips with the candidates sharing views on Iraq, immigration, energy, nuclear
proliferation, healthcare, education, social
security, taxes, and campaign 
reform.

Fact Check (www.factcheck.org): Monitors the truth of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.

Match-O-Matic (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/page?id=3623346): Developed by ABC and USA Today, this interactive site quizzes you on your views to see how you match up on the hot issues with the candidates.

Ask Your Lawmaker (http://www.askyourlawmaker.com/): Users submit questions and vote on them, and then journalists track down lawmakers in Congress and on the campaign trail to get those questions answered. 

Vote Smart (http://www.vote-smart.org/):  Volunteer citizens provide biographical information, voting records, issue positions, interest group ratings, public statements, and campaign finance information so you can find out who your candidates are really representing.

With a wealth of information a point and click away, and computers in homes, offices, and in almost every public library, American voters have more power than ever before.

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Mitali Perkins (mitaliperkins.com) is the author of two novels for teens about a candidate’s daughter, First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover and First Daughter: White House Rules (Dutton). Her main character, Sameera Righton, described by Publishers Weekly  as “an intelligent, witty and prepossessed heroine,” is keeping track of the hype around the REAL First Kid wannabes at www.sparrowblog.com. To learn more about the books, visit firstdaughterbooks.com.

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