My family wants me to explain every ballot measure because I am the one who reads the pamphlet

Every election, my family turns me into the household ballot guide. I am not a lawyer, policy analyst, or election official. I am simply the person who opens the official voter pamphlet before the weekend everyone plans to vote.

At first I enjoyed helping. We would sit around the kitchen table, read the title and summary, and look up unfamiliar terms. Over time, the questions changed from "What does this do?" to "How should we vote?" If I say I lean one way, that preference gets repeated as if I reached a professional conclusion. If I refuse, my mother says I am withholding information after making everyone depend on me.

The risk is not only family pressure. Ballot measures can contain funding mechanisms, implementation dates, exceptions, and legal language that I may misunderstand. The official materials often include arguments from supporters and opponents, but those are advocacy, not neutral annotations. News explainers help, yet they can simplify differently.

I want to change the ritual rather than abandon it. My idea is to prepare a one-page worksheet for each measure with five boxes: the exact question on the ballot, what a yes vote would authorize according to the official material, what a no vote would preserve, the strongest sourced argument on each side, and questions we could not resolve. Everyone would fill in their own final choice privately.

I would also stop answering from memory. If someone asks a late question, I can send the official election source and say what I still do not know. The purpose would be shared reading, not family endorsement.

Does that boundary sound workable, or am I still assuming too much responsibility? How can one informed relative help without becoming the unofficial authority whose mistakes shape several votes?