2024/2025 Voter Service Report

2024/25 was a big year for voters. We had many volunteers helping to get people registered and ready to vote. We participated in an accessibility survey of voting locations for the Disability Law Center, and we tabled at Collective Power for Reproduction at Hampshire College, the Gender Resource Fair at Amherst College, the Democracy Fair in Northampton, the Jones Library Naturalization Ceremony, the Democracy event at UMass, the Amherst block party, and many more. We had a panel on the League and voting at Amherst College where we mailed out hundreds of postcards to voters. We were invited to speak on a WMUA radio talk show. We even sent volunteers down to the West Springfield Mosque to educate and inform voters! As we headed into 2025, with democracy down but not out, we rose to the challenge and chartered a bus, taking nearly 60 people to Boston for the Hands Off rally. 

Our works is not done, and we need every hand on deck. As I step aside and leave this committee into the capable hands of Dana Carnegie, I want to take a moment to thank every person who offered to lend a hand as I learned how to stand up voter forums, issue voters' guides, hang banners, and speak to voters at as many opportunities as we could. I wish I was leaving you all with democracy in a better state, but when we work together, we push that arc toward progress. Every little bit matters.

Thank you all, it has been a pleasure! 

Jessica Ryan, outgoing Voter Service Chair