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VFL Subcommittee on Local Election Voter Participation
February 16, 2024
10 AM
Zoom
Minutes
Members in Attendance: Marian Cohen, Margaret Coppe, Dan Joyner, Fernando Quezada, Eileen Zalisk, Jeri
Zeder
The meeting was called to order at 10:02 AM. A quorum was present. Chair Jeri Zeder read the script for
remotely conducted open meetings.
Members voted unanimously: Cohen, Aye, Coppe Aye, Joyner Aye, Quezada Aye, Zalisk, Aye, Zeder, Aye.
Approval of the January 19, 2024 minutes was moved by Jeri Zeder and seconded by Fernando Quezada with
two edits: add Marian Cohen to attendees, correct reference to Cohen’s work in #2 and voted unanimously.
Voice vote: Cohen, Aye, Coppe Aye, Joyner Aye, Quezada Aye, Zalisk, Aye, Zeder, Aye
Discussion items
1. Progress on writing assignments
Coppe on Voting History in Lexington
• Get information from Town Clerk on breakdown of local voting on early voting, mail in voting,
absentee voting (will wait until after March 5 elections)
• Information on early voting post Covid (March 3, 2020 was prior to Covid shutdown)
• Breakdown of contested races in local elections, both town wide and precinct
• More detail on races, names of candidates, results, etc
• Data analysis, Marian Cohen will help with this. Goal is to produce 4 charts, one comparing
presidential to municipal races
• Comments from Fernando on encouraging civic engagement; will getting data and making it
available do this
• Need to identify parameters in presidential and state elections versus municipal elections
• Example of steps Town can take is to make sure that election information needs to be at top of
homepage on website. Recent inquiry from a citizen pointed out this discrepancy to the Town
Manager and it has been corrected.
Zeder on Civic Curriculum in Lexington Schools
• Lengthy piece will be summarized for the report
• Full piece will go in appendix
The March meeting will be March 15, 2024 at 10 AM by Zoom
Minutes submitted by
Margaret Coppe