Voter Engagement
This team works to encourage people to vote. We know that voter registration is only part of the story. We want to be sure those who are registered actually vote.
Committee Leaders: .
Renee Gladstone and Melanie Carter
Renee Gladstone and Melanie Carter
Volunteer Opportunities:
We are gearing up for the election season. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Renee Gladstone or Melanie Carter at lwvpalatinearea@gmail.com.
We are gearing up for the election season. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Renee Gladstone or Melanie Carter at lwvpalatinearea@gmail.com.
Activities: .
- Working with local Chambers of Commerce to get out the vote for the upcoming election. Click HERE for more information about this effort..
- Created a flyer to explain vote-by-mail procedures in Illinois. Committee members have been visiting various locations to answer voting-related questions and pass out the flyer. Places they have visited include: The Palatine Farmer's Market, Partners for Our Community (POC), the Chambers of Commerce in our membership area, many churches, high schools, Journeys the Road Home, Friendship Village, Palatine Township, Palatine Library, Auburn Woods (Palatine), Palatine Senior Center, Wings, Friendship Village.
- Created a flyer on the ways to vote available to handout at registration events and League sponsored events open to the general public
- Working on a talking points memo that League members will be able to use when speaking with people we meet who say they don’t vote.
Photos:
LWV members at the Palatine Farmers Market, helping to get out the vote.
Palatine high school students at Village Hall, casting early votes in the 2020 Illinois primary election.