by Dawn Smith, Chair After taking the summer off from meetings (while remaining very active), Voter Services met again, in person, on Thursday, September 3, at the Brown County Central Library, with a packed agenda. Dawn Smith & Lynn Meshke spoke with St. Paul’s United Women of Faith on the upcoming Constitutional Amendments on September 14. Members of Voter Services tabled at a back-to-school event, “Sample the City,” at UWGB on September 15. Lynn Meshke designed and create

Dawn Smith, Chair Voter Services did not meet in July, with it being so close to the Fourth of July, but we’ve stayed busy. In recognition of the League’s Unite and Rise Day of Action, and the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we will be hosting a Proclamation from the Mayor and the County Executive on Thursday, August 6, at 1:00, in City Hall’s Council Chambers. Local community organizers have been invited to speak, and an invitation has been extended to local and state

Dawn Smith, Chair June has been a busy month for Voter Services. We spent most of our June meetings planning events. Members of Voter Services hosted tables at Juneteenth and Pride. I had the opportunity to stop by the Pride event and join Lynn Meshke and Lynn Gerlach, who were representing the League at our table, and it was a lovely event. We also got 50+ people to sign up for our newsletter, which is a huge accomplishment. Pictures from both events can be found on our Fa

Dawn Smith, Co-Chair At May’s Voter Services meeting we were provided an update on the collaboration event we co-hosted on August 25 with the YWCA. Our League hosted a Sim-Vote for the kids in attendance; they were asked to vote for characters of K-Pop Demon Hunters who are running for political office. My favorite moment of the day was when an 8-year asked, “What does State Treasurer do?” The Sim Voting was such a hit with the kids who attended that the YWCA asked if we’d be

Dawn Smith, Co-chair Voter Services met the first Thursday of the month in April. We were hoping to start meeting in person but, due to some bad thunderstorms, we met via Zoom for one last month. The primary focus of the April Voter Services meeting was to discuss and get volunteers for the Empower the Vote event that our League co-hosted with the YW. At the event we helped at the registration table (and we had someone show up specifically to register), and we hosted a sim

Dawn Smith and Christine Lemerande, Co-chairs General Election years are always busy for Voter Services, and this year is no exception. We invited 50+ local candidates to submit ten-minute videos, asking them to answer two questions – · Why are you running for office? · What are the three top issues facing your community/district, and, if elected, what will you do to address those issues? Seventeen candidates submitted videos. Given that this was our first try ad

Dawn Smith, Committee Co-chair Voter Services holds its meetings the first Thursday of the month, which was January 1 this year, so we didn’t meet, but we have been busy. We’ve been working on collecting candidate data for many local races. We’ll be holding an in-person/live-stream GBAPS School Board forum at the Brown County Central Library on Wednesday, March 18, at 6:00 p.m. in the auditorium. It will be moderated by Jean Marsch. For our other local races, we’ll be sendi

(Dawn Smith, Co-Chair) Voter Services met via Zoom in early December to start planning out the 2026 General Election year. With all the local races (City Council, County Board, Village Boards, etc.), and with the poor luck we’ve had getting all the candidates to participate in our forums, we’re taking a different approach this year. All candidates running for selected offices will be sent an invite to submit a 10-minute promotional video to the LWVGGB, which we will share o

(Christine Lemerande, Co-Chair) The Voter Services committee met at the Brown County Central Library on Thursday, October 2, with seven members in attendance. We discussed several initiatives and heard a fun and educational presentation by Lynn Gerlach on civics curriculum options in the Green Bay Area Public Schools. We attended to the following business: Dawn Smith wrote an apartment complex welcome letter from our League that gives new residents information on how to reg

Submitted by Dawn Smith and Christine Lemerande, Co-Chairs of Voters Services Committee Voter Services met in September after taking the summer off. We spent some time talking about our plans for the upcoming general election year. A couple things we’re looking at: • Putting together content for our YouTube channel around the new property tax bills in Green Bay and school funding in the state. The Education Committee has expressed an interest in partnering with us on this. •