The goal of the Voter Services Team is to promote citizens’ informed participation in elections by providing non-partisan information in the following ways:
Provide opportunities to register voters and update their addresses and party affiliations as well as provide the latest information on voting in North Carolina and especially in Henderson and Transylvania counties
Obtain grants from League of Women Voter US to fund registering students in our high schools and community colleges to vote at their earliest opportunity by holding voter engagement events on their campuses in the Spring
Provide contact information for local elected officials and Henderson County Board of Elections at our Voter Engagement events
Provide opportunities for voters to interact with candidates by organizing candidate forums and meet and greet opportunities
Work to ensure candidates in Henderson, Polk and Transylvania Counties provide information to vote411.org for each election and advertise vote411.org by erecting signs large and small around Henderson county
We have voter engagement booths at:
· The NC Apple Festival
· Hendersonville Farmers Market
· Mills River Farm Market
· Mills River Day
· Hendersonville Pride Picnic
· Henderson County Libraries in Hendersonville and Fletcher
· IAM’s Food Pantry and Mobile Pantry stops in Mills River and Hendersonville
· YMCA Mobile Market stops in Mills River and Hendersonville
· Henderson County High Schools
· Blue Ridge Community College campuses in Flat Rock and Brevard
We also:
· Observe meetings of the Henderson County Board of Elections
· Track legislation in the NC General Assembly regarding voting in NC
· Provide packets of information on upcoming elections and voting to all the libraries in Henderson County and Transylvania County
· Collaborate with other non partisan voting groups such as Common Cause, Better Ballot NC, Carolina Jews for Justice, National Voter Registration Day, National Early Voting Day, FairVote.org., DemocracyNC and others.
