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November Elections

Casting your vote and engaging in the democratic process is more important than ever. 

Our League is looking for volunteers to help support our traditional work during the election. We need your help with:

• Candidate forums for school boards, city councils, Assembly, and Congressional races, and

• Development and delivery of pro con presentations.

If this is of interest to you, please click here.

New this year

We need you help in support of the Registrar of Voters, ROV, and the financial support of our Local League. This year we are undertaking a new project. We will become secure couriers for transportation of ballots from the ballot boxes and Vote Centers to the ROV in San Jose.  We need your help to sign up to be a courier:

• This will mean you will spend a couple hours paired with one other person and pick up ballots and deliver them to the ROV,

• That other person can be a friend or family member, or someone we can pair you with.

• Our local League, if you agree, will receive $65 for each person per trip. That mean $130 for each pair of couriers will be donated to LWVCS.

The ROV counts on volunteer support like this to make the elections run efficiently and the financial support our League receives will be significant.

If this is of interest, please click here.  

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please click here. This link will take you to a presentation by the ROV regarding courier and other volunteer opportunities.

Congratulations - 50 Years!

Congratulations to Roberta Hollimon for achieving Lifetime Status, an active member for 50 years with the League.

Congratulations also to Tracey Edwards. Elaine named Tracey the “defender of democracy” for all her accomplishments with our league over the last 5 years on our board.

Excellent accomplishments and many thanks!

Please do volunteer this year for candidate forums, ProCon development, and/or supporting the ROV.

All these activities will help our community and will be personally rewarding.

Thank you,

 Elaine & Tracey, Your Co-Presidents

Special Support for Voting

“Help!” A message from a frantic voter, two years ago, who wanted her vote to count but was leaving on a trip before she received her mail-in ballot. Our volunteer replied, “as you are heading for the airport, just stop by the Registrar of Voters office and ask for your ballot.  You will receive it, mark it and drop it in the ballot box. Your vote will be counted.  Several weeks later, this voter wrote that she received a message from the Registrar’s office indicating her ballot had been received and counted.

The League of Women Voters Cupertino Sunnyvale (LWVCS) is here to support voter participation like we did in this situation.  Even though we are volunteer run, we do have operating expenses for which we need to fundraise. 

This brings us to the purpose of this article; we are delighted to provide an opportunity for our members to be involved in the November election and help us raise much needed funding.

Have you ever wondered how all the ballots from vote centers and drop boxes get to the Registrar of Voters to be counted?  The election logistics team at the ROV works with organizations, like ours, whose members sign up to help with this very critical task in all our elections.  Someone must pick up these ballots and deliver them to the ROV every day!  Many workers are needed during these days leading up to and including election day.  ROV pays a stipend for the work, and we ask our members to donate this stipend to our Local League, contributing to our fundraising efforts.

The ROV requires workers to work in pairs to always have two sets of eyes on every ballot. This presents a great opportunity for members to invite their family and friends to partner with them and work one shift together.  Many of our board members are taking the opportunity to multi-task--spend time with a friend while collecting and delivering ballots. 

So now we are asking for “Help” from all of you! Please sign up for one or several shifts. This is a terrific way to provide a service to the community, ensure every vote gets counted, and help fund our Local League.

We have set up an easy way for everyone (members and non-members referred by one of our members) to sign up.  Go to our website here. here.  If this link doesn't work, there is a button on our homepage that will take you to the sign-up page.  Our membership director, Nina Wong-Dobkin, is coordinating this effort so feel free to e-mail her with questions at Membership@lwvcs.org. 

Upcoming LWV Civil Discourse Committee Event!

Opening the Door  –

Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) –

A Fairer Way to Elect Your Representatives?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of another method of voting?

Join us on August 7 at 7pm via here  with our voting experts to explore Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) to

Learn how and why  RCV will:

-             Open the field to more candidates?

-             Get more voters to the polls?

-             Get quicker election results?

-             Confuse Voters?

-             And more!

Our speakers include:

Assoc. Prof. Jason McDaniel of SFSU

And Steve Chessin, President, Californians for Electoral Reform (CFR)

Our Experts will discuss: Who uses this method? 

How well does it work?  What are your questions?

Sign up for this event now!

Registration

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• Vallco Project - Second Modification to the Rise Development Approved 
  

• The City has approved the second modification to the Rise Development pursuant to streamlined, ministerial processes allowed under state law for projects that include a specified percentage of affordable housing units. Formerly the Vallco Town Center Development, the Rise is a mixed-use housing development with 2,669 units, of which 890 units are affordable to lower income households. The modified project includes 47 townhomes, which were not contemplated in the previously approved project. The project also includes approximately 1.95 million square foot of office space, 225 million square foot of retail space and at grade open space areas. The approval documents and approved plans are available online at Cupertino.gov/vallcosb35.

• Cupertino Chamber of Commerce - check out their activities here

LWV Cupertino-Sunnyvale Board Meeting Notes - June Meeting, 2024

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