President Clarice ScottTime for Americans to register to vote! (from Mary Stewart Burgher)Once again this year, military and overseas voters can register to vote and request their ballots, using the latest secure technology and benefiting from access to continuously updated state-specific information. It is now easier than ever before to register and request your ballot. That makes it all the more inexcusable not to! Use the web site of FAWCO (Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas) Military and Overseas Voter Services (https://fawco.overseasvotefoundation.org/overseas/home.htm). Voters in the equivalent of the 26th state (6 million overseas Americans) can click on the home-page button and go straight to a dedicated site where they can:
This year, that is more important than ever before. To comply with the MOVE Act of 2009, overseas voters must register afresh in every year in which they wish to vote, and many states have moved up their primary dates, cutting down time to request primary ballots. In addition, because the legislative language is not perfectly clear, some states are interpreting MOVE to mean that voters must request a ballot for every election in the year (primary, federal, special, run-off…). Overseas voters are going to have to be very fast on their feet and stay informed throughout the election process. While all personal information is instantly erased from the site the moment you click to validate your registration, certain general statistics are kept on the number of voters who have registered, the countries they register from, the states they register in… This information is invaluable when FAWCO and its partners go to Washington to talk to legislators. It gives us a picture of the overseas voting population and no one is more aware of the importance of 1 vote here and 1 vote there than a legislator facing or having just survived a close election… It is now easier than ever before to register and request your ballot. That makes it all the more inexcusable not to!
We need coordinators for Fundraising and NewcomersPlease take a moment to read over the available positions/committees below. Even if you can't make a time commitment to a position – one can always squeeze in a few hours for a single occasion to help on a committee. Alternatively you can join a committee. Fundraising, and Newcomers will need a committee. You can be available for a onetime event or longer. You just have to let us know when and how you are available. It can be as easy as baking for an event, hosting for groups as small as 10, assisting at a club program or fundraiser by taking money, selling raffle tickets or helping set up. You can help the Membership officer by volunteering to call a few new members and welcome them to the club or invite them for coffee. Feel free to contact any of the people currently holding the position(s) you are interested in to hear more about it. You will not be pressured into taking a position. We are more interested in the “right person for the right job”. But you could always surprise yourself by how wonderfully competent you really are by stepping up to a challenge. You will have a great board, club members, and people from the community to support you. A Viking saying goes “No (wo)man is to old, lame, deaf, blind, cripple to be of help.”
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Clarice ScottPresident@awcdenmark.org |
