The Sinatra Proviso: If you can make it here, maybe you can make it anywhere, but one recent study of tax burdens, by the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan group, had Connecticut, New Jersey and New York with the heaviest burdens.
Read the newspapers and look for voters' guides which may be published by nonpartisan groups in your area.
Tom Reppetto, president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, a nonpartisan civic group, has spoken to community groups across the city about the issue.
The Tax Policy Center, a Washington-based, nonpartisan research group, has posted a calculator at taxpolicycenter.org/mpc.org/mpc
About three-fourths of the nation's voters will be marking paper ballots, most of which will be counted electronically by an optical scanner, said Pamela Smith, president of Verified Voting, a nonpartisan group that has advocated for paper ballots that can be counted electronically and recounted by hand as a way to ensure trust in a close election.
The coalition, led by the nonpartisan groups Voto Latino and Mi Família Vota, has other ideas.
But Mr. Rivera, who was named the most corrupt member of Congress this year by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a nonpartisan group in Washington, has refused to back down.
At least one union group has sent out mailings opposing nonpartisan elections, and several City Council members.
Another nonpartisan group, the Tax Policy Center, has analyzed Mr. Romney's tax proposal.
The Arms Control Association, a nonpartisan group in Washington, has reported that Israel possesses between 75 and 200 nuclear warheads.
