HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-07-19-VISION2025-min (Subcommittee on Local Election Voter Participation) DRAFT VFL Subcommittee on Local Election Voter Participation
July 19, 2024
10 AM
Zoom
Draft Minutes
Members in Attendance: Margaret Coppe, Marian Cohen, Dan Joyner, Fernando Quezada, Eileen Zalisk, Jeri
Zeder
The meeting was called to order at 10:00 AM. A quorum was present. Chair Jeri Zeder read the script for
remotely conducted open meetings.
Members voted unanimously: Coppe Aye, Cohen, Aye, Joyner Aye, Quezada, Aye, Zalisk, Aye, Zeder, Aye.
Approval of the June 16, 2024 minutes was moved by Jeri Zeder and seconded by Marian Cohen and voted
unanimously. Voice vote: Coppe Aye, Cohen, Aye, Joyner Aye, Quezada, Aye, Zalisk, Aye, Zeder, Aye.
Discussion Second Draft of Proposed Report
Page 14-16 of First Draft edits:
• Add changes to Mass reforms prior to 2020
Need more information about mail in voting in Lexington specifically has total number of voters in
Lexington declined
• Delete first sentence of last paragraph(Margaret author). Add second sentence to page 21
Add pre-registration and automatic voter registration to page 21
• Added chart with voting by age in Lexington page 16
Information on age categories comes from the Pew Foundation; confirms that older voters turn out more
frequently than younger voters; question about how the actual numbers compare to the number of
registered voters in each category
• Page 11, same day voter registration
Questions:
• Does Town Clerk send congratulatory notes to newly pre-registered voters
• Does data support idea that parents of school age children vote in higher numbers in debt exclusion
elections for schools than seniors.
Jeri moved adjournment at 11:05 AM.
Members voted unanimously: Coppe Aye, Cohen, Aye, Joyner Aye, Zalisk, Aye, Zeder, Aye.
The next meeting will be August 16 , 2024 at 10 AM by Zoom
Minutes submitted by
Margaret Coppe
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