An official voter information guide mailed to a Southern California resident, ahead of a state primary election in Los Angeles, California. (Photo Illustration by Jay L Clendenin/Getty Images)
ZEV HURWITZ WOULD BE THE FIRST to tell you that he’s a political nobody.
He doesn’t hold elected office, possesses only 353 Instagram followers and has zero interest in building a following around partisan opinions. But he also has a master’s degree in public policy, spent his 18th birthday registering to vote and plows hours into ballot research.
“This is my Super Bowl,” the 33-year-old Pico-Robertson resident said of election season.
He first put his voting plans into a Google Doc a couple of election cycles ago, after friends kept asking him to walk them through ballot measures or explain who the judges were.
It’s since become a thing.
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