Voter Registration for Food Assistance Clients

LWVDV Voter Services is partnering with the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano to do voter registration at various Food Bank depot locations around our county, and we need your help! 

In January, the Voter Services Team Leaders, Shawn Gilbert and Ana Pan, completed training approximately 20 volunteer LWVDV members to register voters. Beginning on February 5th and continuing through at least June 25th, LWVDV will be providing information on voting and registering eligible voters at various food pantry locations throughout Contra Costa County. Volunteers will not be waiting for people to approach them. Instead, volunteers will be walking the waiting line and speaking with individuals while they wait for the pantry to open.

Partnering with the CC&S Food Bank is an opportunity for LWVDV to do important outreach in a community we do not engage with often enough. We hope to build a relationship that will lead to increased knowledge of voting rights and processes, as well as a richer connection with the League.