See also FAQs for Candidates.

Your free web page

If you are a candidate in a nonparticipating county, we regret that we cannot post any information about your race or your candidacy.

Candidates may enter data on their web page electronically until 8:00 p.m. EST, the day before Election Day.

For answers to specific questions about the total project, please contact the Smart Voter Project Director, Ernie Ting, at director@smartvoter.org or 510-350-0812.

A warm "thank-you" to all candidates who fill out our Web form to create your own web page on Smart Voter. Our users want to read the information about you and your candidacy directly from you!

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Candidate photo

We invite you to submit a color or black & white photo for your web page which is a "head shot" of you taken within the last two years. All photos must be emailed or mailed to us timestamped or postmarked by five (5) days before the Election Day.

Please include in the email message or on the back of the photo:

• your name,
• office being sought, and
• county and state of residence

Choose one of the three ways listed below.

1. EMAIL digital photo: You may send us a digital photo or scan a photo and send it to us as an attachment to an email message. The digital image of you alone should be in the following format:
   • Larger than 107 wide x 130 high (pixels). There should be room to crop.
   • A common photo format (TIFF or JPG, for example. Do not send DOC files. Mac users: do not send photos encoded in base 64 format.)
   • A file size that is practical for email transmission.

   Attach the digital photo as a separate binary file in the email message sent to our Photo Editor:

   pa-photo@smartvoter.org

   Please be sure to identify the candidate name, county, and office in the body of the email message. Also please include "Smart Voter" as the first words in the Subject line (we have a huge spam problem and it helps us to identify your email in case our spam filters are working overtime).

2. Email Web address: If the photo is already posted on a web page, please send the URL via email to pa-photo@smartvoter.org. Please be sure to identify the candidate name, county, and office in the body of the email message and include "Smart Voter" as the first words in the Subject line. We will do our best to convert this photo to our specifications, but cannot guarantee success.

3. Regular Mail developed photo: You may mail a nonreturnable developed photo to us which we will scan and put on your Smart Voter web page. If you have any questions about producing a digital photo in the format we need, please choose this method -- it's the easiest for you. Mail to this address:

   LWV - Smart Voter PO Box 131 Wallingford, PA

   Mark on the back of your photo or include in the email message:

   • your name,
   • office being sought, and
   • county and state of residence

If it is not possible or practical to publish your photo, the photo editor will notify you and ask for a replacement.

If you have questions about your photo, please communicate with our photo editor at pa-photo@smartvoter.org or with your League volunteer coordinator.