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Category: Education Content: Voter Education Many local organizations release voter guides. JALSA does not endorse or support individual candidates. However, to help you in your efforts to know as much about the state candidates as possible, we have listed web addresses for a number of different voter guides. Some of these groups are "one issue groups." Thus, their support is based on one and only one specific issue of a person's voting record. Some of these groups have worked the opposite side of issues which concern JALSA. But, you can learn much about candidates from reading who is supported by "the other side" on issues of concern. Massachusetts Family Institute. -- working to elect candidates who are against same-sex marriage and want new discriminatory language in the Massachusetts Constitution. http://www.mafamily.org/voterguides.htm Gun Owners Action League Works against legislation trying to curb availability of assault weapons or other regulations on gun purchase or gun ownership. Lobbied against the AJCongress efforts to add markers (taggants) to explosives. http://www.goal.org Mass. Citizens for Life - works to defeat candidates who support abortion, Emergency Contraception, Embryoic Stem Cell Research. http://www.masscitizensforlife.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_printable&PAGE_id=177&lay_quiet=1 Naral-Prochoice Massachusetts - supporting candidates who protect reproductive rights and Emergency Contraception. http://www.prochoicemass.org/assets/files/votersguide.pdf Massachusetts Federation of Teachers - endorsing candidates who support public education http://www.mfteducator.org/NewPoliticalAction.htm#senatecand Mass Equality - a list of how legislators voted on the proposed Massachusetts constitutional amendments that would prohibit same-sex marriage. http://www.massequality.org/get_vote.php Please send us web addresses for other report cards. We will include them in future emails.