Election Information

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November 2024 Elections - West Virginia Key Deadlines

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Voting Resources and Links

  • Project 2025 on Social Safety Net: A Social Work Perspective
    • This Social Justice Brief discusses Project 2025, focusing on the social safety net from a social work perspective. It highlights challenges facing the safety net system in the U.S. and emphasizes the importance of social work in advocating for policies that address economic inequality and provide crucial support to vulnerable populations.
  • The Ominous Cloud of Gerrymandering Hovering Over the 2024 Election
    • This Social Justice Brief discusses the implications of gerrymandering on democracy, particularly its impact on the 2024 election. It emphasizes how manipulated electoral maps can undermine fair representation, disenfranchise marginalized communities, and shift power in ways that do not reflect the popular will. The brief highlights the need for social workers and advocates to promote fair redistricting practices to uphold the principles of social justice and equity.
  • Voting is Social Work
    • Voting is Social Work is a national initiative aimed at integrating voter engagement into social work practice. The website provides tools, resources, and training to help social workers empower their clients and communities to participate in the democratic process. It highlights the importance of voting as a form of civic engagement that aligns with social work's core values, emphasizing social justice, advocacy, and community empowerment. Through educational materials, webinars, and partnerships, Voting is Social Work encourages social workers to take action by educating clients about voting rights, registering voters, and addressing barriers to voting access. The goal is to ensure that the voices of all community members, especially those from marginalized and vulnerable populations, are heard in the political process.

What You Can Do!

Information collected from Voting is Social Work Article

  • Alert social work colleagues that non-partisan voter mobilization is legal, professional, and important (Rome, Hoechstetter, & Wolf-Branigin, 2010). The IRS identifies a range of acceptable non-partisan practices for tax exempt organizations. Electioneering for specific parties or candidates is prohibited.
  • Assist clients and constituencies who need extra guidance in registering to vote and getting to the polls—especially people with mental health conditions, individuals who are older, and people who have been formerly incarcerated in most states. (See Nonprofit Vote at https://www.nonprofitvote.org or League of Women Voters at http://www.lwv.org.)
  • Micro students can help clients to obtain the necessary state identification and to use a simple online registration site, such as turbovote.org or vote.org.
  • Macro students can introduce agency policy change, develop spread-the-word community campaigns, and organize “people to the polls” (McElwee, 2015).
  • Anyone can invite all candidates running for office in their agency’s district to discuss their policy proposals that promote social justice, human rights, and equal opportunity.
  • Go to the www.votingissocialwork.org website, find useful resources, and choose one or more ways to “pledge to participate.”