Election 2012  

Links for voter registration in Pennsylvania and other states and absentee ballots.

Forms are also available at the Musselman Library reference desk and the Registrar's Office.

Not sure if you are registered to vote? You can find out by searching Pennsylvania's voter registration database here. You also can confirm your registration by calling 1-877-VOTESPA.

Information for college students voting in PA including the requirements for registering to vote, how to register, how to vote, polling places and more.

Ratings of political ads in partnership with FactCheck.org.

Rate campaign videos by most negative and most effective, and sort by party and search by keywords.

Watch the latest campaign ads in the 2012 presidential race and track ad spending during the primaries and general election.

Ad Hawk is a free mobile app that allows you to identify political ads as they air and immediately learn about who is behind them. Want to know who is spending money to influence your vote? The app provides valuable contextual information about the candidate, super PAC and issues ads airing on TV and radio this election year.

To visualize the relationships among political contributions, The Wall Street Journal used social network software to map more than a million records of donor data tracked by the Federal Election Commission.

Provides more than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952.

Non-partisan source that tracks the influence of money on U.S. politics, and how that money affects policy and citizens' lives.

Provides a single point of entry to campaign finance data and downloadable data sets.

Provides a tally of the money raised and spent by the presidential candidates, the national party committees and the primary “super PACs” whose sole purpose is to support a candidate.

A project to follow the money and spending of PACs and political donors to candidates and ads.