The Voter Education Coalition (VEC) is a non-partisan community organization that works to provide educational opportunities to the public.
The Voter Education Coalition (VEC) is a non-partisan organization that sponsors candidate forums, meet and greets and other events. Our primary goal is to provide information to the public regarding candidate policy positions, vision and qualifications. For the past several election cycles the VEC has been active in disseminating information on local, state and congressional elections.
05/14/2021
https://lawrencekstimes.com/2021/05/12/melinda-henderson-has-died/
Longtime Lawrence advocate Melinda Henderson has died at 68 Melinda Henderson was passionately involved in community affairs, most recently focusing on affordable housing and community issues. She died Tuesday at 68.
11/06/2019
11/05/2019
Friendly reminder: in addition to local races, there is a statewide Kansas Constitutional Amendment question on the ballot today Nov 5th, 2019. Polls close at 7pm. The KS SOS Elections Office is currently updating their voter information page. If you're a Douglas County voter, you can find your polling place information at the Douglas County Elections page here:
https://www.douglascountyks.org/depts/voting-and-elections/your-voter-information -To-What's-my-registration-status?
The best place to get election results is from the source - Jamie and the Miracles: https://www.douglascountyks.org/depts/voting-and-elections/election-results -To-Current-Election-Results
10/29/2019
The League of Women Voters Lawrence/Douglas County hosted Lawrence City Commission Candidate Forum on Oct. 14, 2019. Questions were submitted from non-profits that the city supports and summarized by LWVLDC. A huge thanks to Board Chair, Kristin Salmans, for organizing and moderating the event!
LWVLDC City Commission Candidate Forum The League of Women Voters Lawrence-Douglas County hosted Lawrence City Commission Candidate Forum on Oct. 14, 2019. Questions were submitted from non-profit...
Explanation of the constitutional amendment on your ballot, from one of VEC's partners.
10/16/2019
If you requested an advance ballot, it's on the way!
We set a record! Our office just mailed the largest 1st day batch of ballots for a local election EVER! This is a photo of over 6,200 ballots ready to load and part of the amazing team which made it happen, others were still inside working. In 2017, we our record was 4,600 mailed on the first day.
09/29/2019
The election/advance application mailer should be in your mailbox. 2017 was the first time we mailed the information to every voter in a local election and it resulted 8% increase in turnout. We are already received hundreds of applications from this years mailer.
09/22/2019