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Voter Services Committee
Coming in July, 2010: League Electronic Voter Guide
Be Prepared for the August 24th Orange County Primary!
CONTACT:
Charley Williams
cjwilliams@g-e-c.com
Voter Services Subcommittees:
Voter Services Committee activities supporting the 2008 elections cycle
in Orange County:
- LWVOC on-line Voter Guide profiled key candidates in Orange County
(January, August and November elections)
- Adopt-a-Precinct: LWVOC staffed all three 2008 elections at the Winter
Park Lake Island Recreation Center
- Award-winning website: www.voteanywhere.org
(expanded to include links statewide)
- Eleven electronic billboards in Central Florida featured "Stay
Home and Be Counted: voteanywhere.org campaign, promoting (absentee)
vote by mail
- LWVOC Voter Services Phone Banks on WKMG/Local 6-TV and WESH/Channel
2-TV
- LWVOC website offered expanded, up-to-the-minute voter information
and news, including Top 5 Election Questions of the Week
- LWVOC sponsored candidate debates and WMFE candidate forums
- Orange TV Hot Topics programming devoted to voter registration and
voter concerns
LWVOC Voter Services Program for 2009 – 2010:
- Increase voter education and participation.
- Continue and expand the use of new technologies in voter service
efforts.
- Expand community partnerships, use of media and outreach.
- Initiate Speakers Bureau on voting related issues.
Committee efforts to focus on Voter's Rights, Registration, Early and
absentee voting.
Today's Teens/Preteens & Voting:
59% of preteens and teens say they will vote because it is personally what they want to do (up from 42% in 1989).
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84% of 7th-12th graders say they intend to vote in every election (up from 77% in 1989).— Girl Scout Research Institute, Good Intentions, 200
Read More about Voter Services
Summary:
Testimony on the Hill
As many as three million registered voters did not vote in the 2008
General Election due to voter registration problems, suggests a survey
cited by Doug Chapin, director of Election Initiatives for the Pew Center
on the States in testimony
before the Subcommittee on Elections of the Committee on House Administration
on March 26, 2009.
Chapin’s testimony at the hearing on “The 2008 Election:
A Look Back on What Went Right and Wrong” was based on the “2008
Survey of the Performance of American Elections," conducted by
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The survey found that
while most Americans who voted on Election Day had a positive experience,
problems with election administration–including registration, polling
place location, voter identification and long lines–affected millions
of voters, and most significantly, were a major factor preventing as
many as 38% of voters who registered but did not go to the polls to
vote.
The
2008 Survey of the Performance of American Elections, conducted
by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the Pew Center
on the States with support from AARP and the JEHT Foundation, is the
first comprehensive nationwide study focused exclusively on how voters
experience the administration of elections in the United States.
No
Country for Close Calls
Op-Ed by Nat Silver and Andrew Gellman
New York Times April 19, 2009
Florida's
Solid Bellwether State Status
Fascinating overview of Florida voters' demographics, ideology and politics
- and how they compare to national averages
Dr. Susan MacManus, February, 2009 www.Sayfiereview.com
No
voting rights in D.C.
As Central Florida turns its eyes to Washington, D.C., for the inauguration,
we should remember that D.C. is the only capital in a democratic country
that does not have full voting rights.
DEIRDRE MACNAB, President, League of Women Voters of Orange County
Orlando Sentinel letter to the editor, January 20, 2009
LWVOC VOTER newsletter
Orange County election recap, Adopt-a-Precinct, early voting, the electoral
college...
Dec 2008/Jan 2009
PEW Center Press Release
Election Day Went Smoothly but Trouble Spots Remain, Survey Shows
Dec 9, 2008
Orlando Sentinel.com
- Editorial
We think: This election showed why legislators need to change early
voting rules
December 7, 2008
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