[Foundation-l] Is the Voter's Guide legal?

Wed Oct 6 11:05:37 UTC 2004

Anything NPOV is perfectly fine.  As a 501(c)(3) we can't engage in
certain types of political advocacy as an organization.

http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=120703,00.html

But per our NPOV policy, we don't engage in political advocacy anyway.

John Pozniak wrote:

> The English Wikibooks recently started a Voter's Guide
> ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Voter%27s_Guide ). 
> While I think the project is a good idea, I wonder if
> there are legal issues for the Foundation that
> publishing such a guide might complicate.
> 
> Looking for a little guidance,
> 
> John Pozniak (Gentgeen)
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