Celebrating our Volunteers!  

The League is a volunteer organization, our value is in our passion for equal rights, justice and how it informs our time and commitment. We are at our computers or out in the community helping voters. Because we are a large community you may not realize how much we are getting done. We try to create opportunities in smaller manageable chunks of time.

The commitment, determination, attention to detail, and goodwill of you, our volunteers, inspires me every day! Thank you all so much!!

The last few weeks have been wonderfully busy! We helped with two candidate forums at North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, we held our Annual Luncheon and Silent Auction, we basically did 3 separate Voters Guide distributions: the Voters Guide, Corrections to the Voters Guide, and the Spanish Voter Guides. There were voter engagement events in the community and at Dallas College. Many of our volunteers served as judges and poll workers for Early Voting and Election Day. Others served as Navigators on Election Day. And we held the first program of a series on nuclear energy.

Way to go team!!

Highlights coming through May 31:

• More voter services in the community and at Dallas College 
• Unit Meetings April 14 and 18
• No Kings rally on March 28 
• Early Voting for the local elections from April 20 to April 28
• Election day on May 2
• Volunteer/New member brunch on May 9
• Annual Member Meeting on May 16 
• Unit Meetings on May 22 and 23 
• Early Voting for Primary Runoff from May 18 to May 22
• Primary Runoff on May 26

Please join us!

In League,

Diane Tasian, Director of Volunteers.

Election Confusion

There was massive confusion during the Primary election, especially on Election Day, March 3^rd. Not since 2018 has Dallas County held an election that was precinct based. Dallas County was approved to use countywide Vote Centers in 2018. Dallas County had been using Vote Centers for early voting for a long time. Not all Texas counties use Vote Centers, so their elections are precinct based.

The Republican Party chair chose not to hold joint elections for election day. Kudos to Commissioner Andy Sommerman for suggesting a Navigator program to help voters find their correct voting location. I served as a Navigator and saw many voters coming to where they last voted only to discover they needed to go to a location near their home depending on which party they wanted to vote for. The situation was aggravated by the fact that the Texas Secretary of State had not uploaded the information from Dallas County Elections to votetexas.gov and so voters were getting bad information from the state.  

Early voting for the Primary Runoff from May 18 to May 22 will be countywide Vote Centers, but on May 26, election day it will be precinct based.    

Avoid the chaos. Please tell your networks, friends and family to VOTE EARLY when we have countywide Vote Centers available! And, if they vote on Primary Runoff election day, urge them to go to Dallas County Election Department’s website: www.dallascountyvotes.org.  They will find maps showing voting locations under Public Information.

In Dallas County, only election day for the Primary (and Primary Runoff election day if needed) are managed by the Republican and Democratic parties.   Early Voting for the Primaries and all other elections are managed by Dallas County Elections Department.  They use the more accurate, cost-effective, and convenient countywide Vote Centers.

In League,

Diane Tasian, Director of Volunteers.

Join the League 

We’re grateful you’re part of our community. The League is building a future where every person has the desire, the right, the knowledge, and the confidence to participate. Consider joining to empower voters and defend democracy with us. 

Renew or Join online: Visit portal.lwv.org 

Or mail a check to: LWV Dallas, 1402 Corinth Street, Room 109, Dallas, TX 75215

Membership renewal: Standard $75 | Minimum: $20 

Already a League Member? Gift a LWV membership directly through the LWV member portal. Simply log in at portal.lwv.org, look for “Grow Our Community” and select “Gift”. Fill out the recipient’s info, choose their League, and select the dues you want to cover.  Empower someone you care about and give a gift that strengthens our democracy.

Questions? Email membershipVP@lwvdallas.org or call (214) 688-4125.