Election Songs

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2024 Song:  "Democracy Isle"

sung to the tune of "Gilligan's Island"

2020 Song, "The Voting Way"

YouTube video 

2018 Proposition Song

YouTube video

2016 Proposition Song

YouTube video

2014 Proposition Song

YouTube video

2012 Proposition Song

YouTube video

2010 Proposition Song

YouTube video

2009 Proposition Poem
 

2006 Proposition Song

YouTube video

2000 Proposition Song

Flash animated video

 

About CVF's election songs:  In 2000, confronted with a Primary ballot containing a whopping twenty statewide propositions, CVF's Kim Alexander wrote the first "Proposition Song", a three-minute sing-along folk song explaining each proposition in an accurate, unbiased and entertaining manner.  

Sacramento-based Capital Public Radio recorded the song and CVF worked with graphic artists to create a video to play along with the song, featuring the words on the screen so viewers could sing along. 

CVF's election songs have become a popular musical collaboration over the years, with numerous performers and bands joining in to produce and record the song and create the accompanying music video.