Events Calendar

Join the YWCA Mount Desert Island and League of Women Voters Maine on Tuesday, September 22, 2020, at the YWCA MDI between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. to register to vote.

Wear your mask!   Social distancing will be maintained!  

Be one of the first eight people to register and receive a FREE 19th Amendment mug!

Election officials and Town Clerks are running an election like never before. Many people are choosing to vote early by requesting an absentee ballot. But how does Absentee Voting even work? What are the steps to completing and returning the ballots? What's the deadline for voting? And finally: how will my Town Clerk process all those ballots!? 

We'll walk you through the easy steps to voting absentee. We'll also open up the floor for questions –– with local experts on hand ready to answer them.

REGISTER HERE

Sign up for an election protection information session to learn about ways to ensure that folks have access to the ballot this November. You will learn all the different programs we will be running this election cycle and how to get involved. Sign up here for a 1-hour training session.

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Learn to use our online system to call voters from your own home - all you need is a computer with an internet connection! Help us get in touch with Maine voters about requesting their absentee ballots ahead of the November election. We'll provide the lists and train you!

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Neighbor to Neighbor Voting is a project of the League of Women Voters of Maine designed to increase voter engagement and participation in our political process through canvassing neighborhoods with low voter participation.
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2020 marks the 100^th anniversary of the 19^th amendment, when women won the right to vote. Commemorating the 19^th amendment and reflecting on lessons learned and what remains undone, this presentation will celebrate that historic victory and the women who led the movement, while also providing a sober reflection on the compromises that split the movement and left many voters behind – choices that continue to echo 100 years later. The evening will conclude with a brief overview of the work that remains to be done. 

Presented by the Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth. Learn more and register here.

Learn to use our online system to call voters from your own home - all you need is a computer with an internet connection! Help us get in touch with Maine voters about requesting their absentee ballots ahead of the November election. We'll provide the lists and train you!

Sign up here

Sign up for an election protection information session to learn about ways to ensure that folks have access to the ballot this November. You will learn all the different programs we will be running this election cycle and how to get involved. Sign up here for a 1-hour training session.

SIGN UP HERE

Sign up for an election protection information session to learn about ways to ensure that folks have access to the ballot this November. You will learn all the different programs we will be running this election cycle and how to get involved. Sign up here for a 1-hour training session.

SIGN UP HERE

Featuring candidates Nicole Grohoski (D) and Michelle Kaplan (R). There will be an opportunity for audience members to submit their own questions using the Zoom Q&A function to be presented by the moderator.  In order to participate in the Q&A portion of the event, people are encouraged to register for the webinar. People may also submit questions in advance to downeast@lwvme.org. Please put District 132 in the subject line.

The forum will live stream on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LWVME.

The forum will be moderated by Cyndi Wood, Managing Editor of the Ellsworth American. This event is sponsored by the Ellsworth American and the League of Women Voters Downeast. 

Our book group, like so much else, has moved to Zoom. For September and October, we've chosen Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight.  It's 900 pages, so we'll read the first half for September and finish up in October.

Email downeast@lwvme.org for more information or to get the Zoom link. 

Sign up for an election protection information session to learn about ways to ensure that folks have access to the ballot this November. You will learn all the different programs we will be running this election cycle and how to get involved. Sign up here for a 1-hour training session.

SIGN UP HERE

Neighbor to Neighbor Voting is a project of the League of Women Voters of Maine designed to increase voter engagement and participation in our political process through canvassing neighborhoods with low voter participation.
sign up here 

Featuring candidates Antonio Blasi (D) and William Faulkingham (R). There will be an opportunity for audience members to submit their own questions using the Zoom Q&A function to be presented by the moderator.  In order to participate in the Q&A portion of the event, people are encouraged to register for the webinar. People may also submit questions in advance to downeast@lwvme.org. Please put District 136 in the subject line.

The forum will live stream on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LWVME.

The forum will be moderated by Cyndi Wood, Managing Editor of the Ellsworth American. This event is sponsored by the Ellsworth American and the League of Women Voters Downeast. 

Do you agree that in a presidential campaign:

+ The presidential candidate with the most votes in all 50 states should win?
+ Presidential candidates should have to seek support in all 50 states?
+ Every vote in every state in every election should be equal?
+ That getting more Americans to participate and vote would be a good thing for our country and democracy?

Join us to learn about how the National Popular Vote Compact can help achieve all of this without constitutional changes, and within the Electoral College structure. A National Popular Vote (NPV) bill will be introduced in the Maine Legislature in the next session. This webinar will focus on understanding how NPV works, and provide clarity about some common misunderstandings about the Electoral College and the National Popular Vote.

Presented by the Portland Area League of Women Voters.

[REGISTER HERE]

Neighbor to Neighbor Voting is a project of the League of Women Voters of Maine designed to increase voter engagement and participation in our political process through canvassing neighborhoods with low voter participation.
sign up here

Featuring candidates Brian Langley (R) and Louie Luchini (D). There will be an opportunity for audience members to submit their own questions using the Zoom Q&A function to be presented by the moderator.  In order to participate in the Q&A portion of the event, people are encouraged to register for the webinar. People may also submit questions in advance to downeast@lwvme.org. Please put District 136 in the subject line.

The forum will live stream on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LWVME.

The forum will be moderated by Jill Goldthwait, former Maine State Senator. This event is sponsored by the Ellsworth American, the Mount Desert Islander, the Weekly Packet, and the League of Women Voters Downeast. 

Who was Florence Brooks Whitehouse? Well, she was from Maine. Considered a radical. And she was a key player in the women suffrage movement.

Join us in celebration of the 100th year of women winning the vote and the legacy of Florence Brooks Whitehouse! We're offering two events in October that will feature Anne B. Gass and her book, Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine's Fight for Woman Suffrage. Both events are in collaboration with Curtis Memorial Library. 

We encourage you to purchase or check out the book from your local library ahead of both events. You can use MaineCat, the state library catalogue, to find a copy. Click here to get started!

Voting Down the Rose is a lively account of Maine native Florence Brooks Whitehouse’s efforts to win women voting rights in the decisive final years of the campaign, 1914-1920. Considered radical for picketing the White House, Florence helped win women suffrage against a backdrop of conservative views of women’s roles, political intrigues, WWI, and the 1918 influenza epidemic.

Anne is the great-granddaughter Florence Brooks Whitehouse. You can purchase the book or borrow it from your local library in advance of the discussion. 

Registration links coming soon. Limited spots will be available. 

Neighbor to Neighbor Voting is a project of the League of Women Voters of Maine designed to increase voter engagement and participation in our political process through canvassing neighborhoods with low voter participation.
sign up here

Who was Florence Brooks Whitehouse? Well, she was from Maine. Considered a radical. And she was a key player in the women suffrage movement.

Join us in celebration of the 100th year of women winning the vote and the legacy of Florence Brooks Whitehouse! We're offering two events in October that will feature Anne B. Gass and her book, Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine's Fight for Woman Suffrage. Both events are in collaboration with Curtis Memorial Library. 

We encourage you to purchase or check out the book from your local library ahead of both events. You can use MaineCat, the state library catalogue, to find a copy. Click here to get started!

Voting Down the Rose is a lively account of Maine native Florence Brooks Whitehouse’s efforts to win women voting rights in the decisive final years of the campaign, 1914-1920. Considered radical for picketing the White House, Florence helped win women suffrage against a backdrop of conservative views of women’s roles, political intrigues, WWI, and the 1918 influenza epidemic.

Anne is the great-granddaughter Florence Brooks Whitehouse. You can purchase the book or borrow it from your local library in advance of the discussion. 

This lecture is presented on Zoom. Registration is not required. Click HERE to join. 

Neighbor to Neighbor Voting is a project of the League of Women Voters of Maine designed to increase voter engagement and participation in our political process through canvassing neighborhoods with low voter participation.
sign up here https://www.mainecleanelections.org/civicrm/event/register?id=725&reset=1 

Neighbor to Neighbor Voting is a project of the League of Women Voters of Maine designed to increase voter engagement and participation in our political process through canvassing neighborhoods with low voter participation.
sign up here https://www.mainecleanelections.org/civicrm/event/register?id=725&reset=1