Blue Sheets
Contacting your elected representatives to let them know how they are doing is an important part of engaging in democracy. Don't know how to reach them? No problem, we have compiled a list of phone numbers for all of your elected representatives, from local council all the way to the President of the United States! We call them "blue sheets" because we print them on blue paper.
You can also get a personalized list of your local representatives through the County Clerk's office by entering your street address.
Click here for English Blue Sheet
Pucha aquí para la oja azul en Español
Access a personalized list of your local representatives here
National Votes for Women Trail
The National Collaborative for Women’s History Site is leading the effort for a National Votes for Women Trail. Click here for more info.
What is a vote worth?
A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGAGED CIVICS
The Woman Suffrage Movement
In partnership with the Frazier History Museum, Jefferson County Public Schools, the Metro Louisville Office for Women, and civic organizations, including the League of Women Voters, the Filson Historical Society, and others, we compiled a collection of resources for educators to use for the study of the Woman Suffrage Movement.
NAACP
(Lexington-Fayette Branch)
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. www.LexNAACP.net
Youth Voter Movement
For College Students:
BestColleges.com
BestColleges.com has created several online guides to make it easy for college students to participate in democracy. Their guides help college students learn more about registering to vote, specifically addressing the confusion that surrounds having a “local” address and a “permanent” address and how that affects tuition status.
Click here to Learn more about Voting in College via BestColleges.com
Click here to learn about Registering to vote in all 50 States via BestColleges.com
Vote By Mail Institute
A nonprofit, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization, the National Vote at Home Institute is dedicated to ensuring the security of our elections and putting voters' needs first. VoteatHome.org
Vote411.org
This LWV voter guide will help prepare you for the polls. Enter your address to find your polling place, build your ballot with our online voters' guide and much more! With our voters' guide you can see the races on your ballot, compare candidates' positions side-by-side, and print out a "ballot" indicating your preferences as a reminder and take it with you to the polls on Election Day. Check out our resources for military and overseas voters!
An Evaluation of Automatic Voter Registration &
Fayette County Registration Rates
by D. Stephen Voss, Ph. D.
When states make it easier to vote, more people vote. Kentucky makes voting extra hard.
by Joshua A. Douglas,
This academic paper considers the potential impact of automatic voter registration on voter registration rates in Fayette County.
Note: This independent research was funded by the office of the Fayette County Clerk. The research and conclusions are the responsibility of Voss alone, not of Clerk Donald W. Blevins, Jr., or of Prof. Voss’ employer.
Click here to Read the Study
Response to Voss paper by University of Kentucky Law professor, Joshua Douglas. Published in The Lexington Herald Leader. Oct 31, 2018