Government Information Center Collection

Government Information Center Collection

The Government Information Center (GIC) provides free access to United States, California, San Francisco and Bay Area regional agency government documents in addition to materials on public policy, political science, public administration and the law.
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Government Information Center Collection
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San Francisco Election Ballots
In partnership with the San Francisco Department of Elections, this growing collection contains official ballots for all municipal, special and general elections held in San Francisco from 2000...
Show moreIn partnership with the San Francisco Department of Elections, this growing collection contains official ballots for all municipal, special and general elections held in San Francisco from 2000 through the most previous election. A brief note regarding searching this collection. To search by elected office use the “Topic” facet and political party use the “Subject” facet. Multiple facets can be selected for the same search to limit results.
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San Francisco Voter Information Pamphlets
San Francisco Public Library received a Library Services and Technology grant to finance the digital scanning and microfilming of the Library's print collection of voter information pamphlets for...
Show moreSan Francisco Public Library received a Library Services and Technology grant to finance the digital scanning and microfilming of the Library's print collection of voter information pamphlets for San Francisco elections. Dating back to 1907 through the most previous election, this growing collection is a chronicle of all municipal, special and general elections held in San Francisco for the 20th and 21st centuries. The original historical pamphlets were printed on newsprint-quality paper and are extremely fragile. To extend the availability of the materials, a major goal of the project was to preserve the pamphlets in alternative formats and create an Internet-accessible version. A microfilm copy was deposited with the California State Library. Approximately 60,000 voter pamphlet pages, including over 2,000 propositions, were digitized into PDF files. For some elections, separate pamphlets were created for each voting district or a combination of each voting district and political party, resulting in no singular representative pamphlet which includes all of the candidates for that election. As a result, the hard copies of the various pamphlets were bound together to represent that particular election, and this resulted in extra-large digitized versions.
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