Based on numerous requests from friends, I’m sharing my endorsements for the (tremendously long and difficult to understand) Nov. 6 election here, see below. Next election, a very wise union organizer friend and I will give you a summary of our thinking but I have too much on my plate to do so now, which is why this is a “cheat sheet” not a thorough endorsement with explanations.

After spending several hours researching the ballot, I’ve realized the following:

• Ballotpedia should be praised for making our complicated and hidden election processes transparent. As a mostly volunteer organization, it’s totally deserving of your monetary donations, after all “Giving Tuesday” is right around the corner.
• Our so-called democracy is set up for those who are highly educated. Most of the state measures require at least some graduate school in order to just read the language used on the ballot, according to Ballotpedia’s “Readability Score.” How’s the average bear supposed to navigate it all? 
• Measure 7, on Daylight Saving Time, is the only state measure that had $0 money for-or-against it. This gives us a glimpse of what our democracy could look like if millions of dollars weren’t used to pay for advertisements to sway us one way or another.