Member Nell Pizzo presents Michigan’s redistricting commission application process.
The Lansing area’s League of Women Voters hosted Delta Township’s first 2020 “Making Democracy Work” meeting Jan. 29 at the township library.
League members led a discussion and provided voter guides about registration, absentee voting, redistricting and the 2020 Census.
“In primaries, as few as 20 percent of eligible voters actually vote. That’s 20 percent of voters making decisions for all of us to live by…it’s just not enough,” said Howard Pizzo. “We need to have more participation so that it truly is a democracy.”
The league also promoted its resource “VOTE 411” which provides online registration, ballot information, candidate backgrounds and a voter checklist.
“Voting is really the only way you have to truly express your desire to get someone that makes decisions that can meet your expectations,” said Howard Pizzo’s wife, Nell Pizzo.
Howard Pizzo highlighted the league’s commitment to not only educating citizens on how to apply voting information to their own lives, but how to share it with the people around them. He said, “Being an empowered voter is about empowering others.”