Voter Services

Voter Services

Organizes the League's many voter registration and education events.

These include tabling at high schools, U.S. Naturalization Citizen ceremonies, and such local public events as the Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Occasionally Voters Services volunteers are invited to special events such the NAACP's celebration of Juneteenth and neighborhood gatherings.

Last year volunteers participated in the statewide LWVK initiative ”March to the Polls,“ which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment by targeting voter registration and turnout efforts in under-represented precincts.

Voter Services also works with local high schools to provide voter registration and education and  activities including contests and volunteer opportunities.

New volunteers are welcome!

Committee Contact
Contact Name: 
Martha Silks, Charlie Crabtree and Sonja Czarnecki
Contact Number: 
816-853-9474
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Candidates Forum
Event Date: 
Sep 19 2021 05:00 pm

Meet your candidates for Lawrence City Commission and USD 497 School Board on Zoom. Our "speed dating" format will allow you to talk with each candidate in a fairly small setting.

Important Dates:

StickerDesignContest2021
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Please share the graphic above about the 2021 sticker design contest far and wide, especially with any middle- and high-school-age students whom you know!

Event Date: 
Jul 08 2024 05:30 pm
Event location: 

Cape Coral Library

The League of Women Voters of Lee County is sponsoring a Candidate Forum for candidates running for Cape Coral City Council Districts 2,3,4,5, and 7.  This forum is an excellent opportunity for you to learn the candidates' philosophy and positions

Juneteenth - Free-ish since 1865

The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1st, 1863. The Civil War ended in April 1865. Yet it wasn’t until June 19th, 1865, that it was actually enforced by the Union Army. Moreover, June 19th freed enslaved people only in the rebelling states; it did not free enslaved people throughout the nation. Much work has been done to expand emancipation and the voting franchise; much remains to be done. Join us to celebrate Juneteenth and Get Out The Vote on Saturday, June 22, at the George H.P. Smith Park in Lewes, 11 AM-5:30 PM. We need one more helper for the 3:00-5:30 pm shift. Sign up at https://signup.com/go/GrccOWu

Vote 411

Clackamas County Candidates- Interviews and Forums

Our Voter Service committee has put together the following compilation of links to interviews and forums on local candidates as a resource for all of us. Only those candidates that accepted the invitation to participate in a the LWV sponsored forum are included here and we thank them for their participation.

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The League of Women Voters of the United States believes that the direct- popular-vote method for electing the President and Vice-President is essential to representative government.
Motor Voter

Action Alerts

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania now has a Motor Voter Law which is now in effect.
As part of the photo license process, eligible residents may make application to register to vote.

To learn more click READ MORE

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On Monday, September 12th at 7pm on KBLA Talk 1580 hosted a Public Safety Forum featuring the candidates for LA County Sheriff - Sheriff Alex Villanueva and Former Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna.
 
Community Conversations
Event Date: 
Sep 15 2022 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
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Via Zoom

Leagues are stuck in the simple and sometimes effective mode of tabling at schools and entering classrooms to register students to vote. We have not done enough to emphasize the "engage" portion of our mission. Too often we think that these old methods are enough when they are not.Four Leagues from around the Bay gather via Zoom to discuss how their outreach to youth voters has changed and how they encourage them to register or pre-register to vote and become engaged in the process.

The Leagues of Palo Alto; Oakland and Fremont, Newark, Union City present a variety of methods deployed to engage high school students in our democratic process.

The Congressional District 6 Forums are completed.  Recordings are available on the League of Women Voters of Glen Ellyn website -   https://www.lwvge.org.  Below are the links to the recordings on Youtube:
 

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