As I write this, some 21 percent of San Franciscans have filled in their ballots and returned them; the elusive “I Voted” sticker is a four-leaf clover.
Whether you’re waiting for the last moment to vote, or if you’re in the cohort that has already done so, Mission Local provides a valuable service for you. Elucidating the issues we’re voting on, and explaining how and why these matters found their way onto the ballot, is a core tenet of what we do here.
Readers interested in local democracy and its outcomes can:
- Watch live updates of vote tallies and see voting patterns across the city and by precinct — including how you and your neighbors voted;
- Read weekly Q&As with every declared candidate in every supervisor race;
- Attend monthly (or semi-monthly) forums with candidates and/or discussing matters on the ballot;
- Follow the work of the best damn data reporting team in the city as it tracks the saturnalia of cash flooding San Francisco’s political races — and then undertakes the best damn statistical analysis of the vote;
- Get the city’s best political analysis.
Without newsrooms like ours, you’d be forced to take that mountain of glossy mailers at face value (or, in an opposite tack, read through every last word of all the proposed legislation). Democracy, as they say, is on the ballot this year — and local newsrooms like ours play a critical role in informing the electorate: You guys!
All of this is available to you, free. But, of course, it isn’t free to make. You see where this is going.
Thank you, as ever, for helping us produce the stories that you read — and that you need.