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Smart Voter: How to Judge a Candidate

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The League of Women Voters offers a step-by-step process of evaluating public officials for voting and election purposes. The process points out elements to look for in both a candidate's experience and campaigning behaviors. Potential "distortion techniques" or misleading persuasive techniques are described as they pertain specifically to campaign rhetoric.

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decision making, elected officials, evaluating public officials, vote, voter, smartvoter: how to judge a candidate, election, government, social decision making
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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