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President's Note - October 1, 2024
President’s note October 1, 2024
Dear LWV Friends,
THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS! This month we have been putting our mission statement—Empowering Voters, Defending Democracy—to work every day! As I write this note in late September, we have already registered over 500 voters at over 60 events this month. We’ve been to high schools, college campuses, tech and trade schools, libraries, businesses, jails, theaters, community festivals, independent and assisted living facilities, and more. At each event we not only register voters; we also Get Out The Vote by helping voters make a plan. Please remind everyone in your network that Oct. 7 is the last day to register to vote -or- make any other changes (like address or name) to your voter registration. I will announce final totals for our registration efforts at our Oct. 9 meeting.
Our volunteers will deliver the printed Voters Guide throughout the county starting Oct. 12. Vote411.org will hopefully be live just a bit before that, and as soon as we have .pdfs of the guide in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Simple Chinese, we will put them on ourwebsite. In the meantime, pdfs for statewide and federal races are already available on our website.
Here are October’s Action Items:
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SIGN UP TO BE AN ELECTION WORKER. We are continuing to recruit Poll Workers for Williamson County. We will have over 80 sites on Election Day and will need hundreds of new poll workers. You can work half day or full day, just on election day or early voting plus election day. Lots of options! Sign up here.
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VOLUNTEER AT THE ELECTIONS OFFICE. They are swamped and need people to help them with a million small tasks. You do not need to be a VDR to help. Can’t stay for a full 3-hour shift? No problem, just do what you can. I will continue to update this sign up through Election Day.
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JOIN THE ELECTION PROTECTION TEAM. LWV partners with several other organizations to provide non-partisan resources at polling places in case voters have difficulties at the polls. EP volunteers sit outside polling places for specific shifts (you can choose your shifts). Volunteers have resources available for voters who approach with questions, but do not confront voters or poll workers. Because we work with a coalition, everyone who participates needs to go through training, which will be ONLINE and will start in October. The Election Protection team will coordinate all training and scheduling. If you want to go ahead and reserve a spot, you can sign up here.
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JOIN THE ADVOCACY TEAM. It’s not too early to be thinking about the next legislative session, which begins in January. Elisabeth MacNamara from LWV Texas is leading planning sessions on the 4th Thursday of every month at noon. We had our first meeting this past week. The next meeting will be Sept. 26, noon. If you wish to join the team, please send email to emacnamara@lwvtexas.org.
Felicia Miyakawa
President, LWV Williamson County
UPCOMING EVENTS - watch your email for volunteer opportunities! There’s more to come!
Oct. 7: Deadline Day (Last day to register to vote for Nov. election)
Oct. 9, 6PM: OPEN BOARD MEETING (Georgetown Public Library, Friends room, all are welcome. We will also have a google meet option. If you wish to join virtually, please let us know my email: Info@lwvwilco.org)
Oct. 21- Nov. 1: Early Voting
Oct. 25: Last day for Elections office to receive mail-in ballot applications
Nov. 5: General Election |