A major part of the mission of the League of Women Voters is helping voters get good accurate information about election issues and encouraging all citizens to exercise their right to vote. Click the links below to access the information we offer voters.
Upcoming Elections
The next election is the November 3, 2020 General Election. For this election, we are producing:
- printed and online Multnomah County voters’ guides in English and Spanish
- recorded videos of voter forums
- a video voters’ guide with candidate interviews and
- complete voting information on our VOTE411.org website.
Voting in Oregon
How to submit your ballot with Vote-by-Mail
LWV Voters’ Guides in English and Spanish
VOTE411.ORG: For every election, you can learn about all the candidates and measures on your ballot with our online Voters’ Guide, Vote411.org. It has everything that’s in our printed voters’ guides, including candidates’ answers to questions and ballot measures explanations. There are also links to videos of debates, forums and interviews with candidates.
If you need help with this website, click Vote411 Instructions.
LWV Voters’ Guides are published and/or online before every Portland, Multnomah County and Oregon election. You can find printed copies of our Primary and General Election Voters’ Guide at the Multnomah County Elections offices, at 1040 SE Morrison in Portland and at the Gresham Voting Center Express (inside Multnomah County East Bldg.), 600 NE 8th Street, Gresham OR.
LWV Election Videos
For many local and state elections, we offer videos of Election Forums with candidate debates, as well as ballot measure explanations, pros and cons. Here is the link to the forums for the current election.
Especially for Primary and General Elections, we also offer a Video Voters’ Guide, which has videos of interviews with many of the candidates for state and local offices.
Our recordings of the forums and candidate interviews are produced with the help of MetroEast Community Media. They are available for online streaming from our YouTube account and also cablecast by MetroEast on Comcast channels 29 and 329 and Frontier channel 27.