Speaker 1: It is important you a peace of mind.
Speaker 2: No good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2: It is time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 2: on K one, the one you trust. And today in
Speaker 2: studio we have the League of Women Voters here with us.
Speaker 2: And Fran was just here with us not too long ago.
Speaker 2: And Connie you've been with us time and time again
Speaker 2: over the years. It's great to have both of you
Speaker 2: in studio today.
Speaker 1: Happy to be here.
Speaker 2: Let's see League of Women Voters. There might be an
Speaker 2: election coming up. Huh, thank you think I've heard a little.
Speaker 3: Something I want to talk about it.
Speaker 2: We just might now. League of Women Voters is very
Speaker 2: active in voter education.
Speaker 1: That's right. And on program chair right now for Bartlesville League.
Speaker 1: This is Fran and I came on here on October
Speaker 1: second to tell about an October first program we had
Speaker 1: where a journalist from the Tulsa World came up and
Speaker 1: talked to us about dark money in politics, and then
Speaker 1: he published a research article about it in the Tulsa World.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness sakes. And then we had the judge
Speaker 2: Alan JENTI is talking.
Speaker 1: About Yes, he came up. He was last Tuesday. Both
Speaker 1: of these programs were at the public library, and Judge
Speaker 1: talked to us about the electoral college, which is something
Speaker 1: we might have learned about in high school civics, I guess,
Speaker 1: but it's hard to understand. And he did a really
Speaker 1: good job of explaining that we don't actually vote for
Speaker 1: a presidential candidate. We vote for our electors and then
Speaker 1: the governor certifies them and so forth.
Speaker 2: Now, Connie, we've been talking about getting people registered, making
Speaker 2: sure that they're registered, and there are folks who sometimes
Speaker 2: think that they're registered, but they might not be. And
Speaker 2: there's a really easy way to check that out, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yes, Unfortunately, we've passed the deadline. I know that to
Speaker 3: register or change your registration, but I wanted to let
Speaker 3: people know that there's early voting on October twenty nine,
Speaker 3: and you can find out more about that by info
Speaker 3: at vote early day dot org.
Speaker 2: Now, this early voting has really kind of taken on
Speaker 2: a life of its own. Many people find it very,
Speaker 2: very convenient because there are things that sometimes will happen
Speaker 2: on election day you can't get out of in order
Speaker 2: to go out and cast your vote, and you know,
Speaker 2: it just gives you options.
Speaker 3: And it's nice to just know that you have it done,
Speaker 3: you know. Oh yeah, And it's less crowded, typically less
Speaker 3: crowded than on election day, so that's another other advantage
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: Well, one thing I like about right here is we
Speaker 2: go down to the Secretary's office, you know, fourth floor
Speaker 2: of City Hall, and it's very spacious. You get your
Speaker 2: steps in and you just don't feel like you're rushed.
Speaker 2: And the folks are just so very nice and very
Speaker 2: helpful too. But they are at all the other polling
Speaker 2: places as well, and you.
Speaker 3: Can find out where to vote that info at vote
Speaker 3: early day dot org.
Speaker 1: Two. Well, the information about your voting voting place it
Speaker 1: changed a couple of years ago, and so if you
Speaker 1: want to confirm both where to go to vote and
Speaker 1: also to make sure that your registration is valid, because
Speaker 1: it would feel pretty awful to get there and have
Speaker 1: them chase you out. But you can just online. You
Speaker 1: can just search for okay voter portal and it'll come up.
Speaker 1: You don't have to remember the www. DoD blah blah
Speaker 1: though that is written out in the voter guide which
Speaker 1: you can pick up and it tells that. But just
Speaker 1: search for okay voter Portal all that information is in
Speaker 1: there and you can make sure that you look it
Speaker 1: through with a sample ballot. Also, there are maps to
Speaker 1: make sure which precinct you're in, which ward you're in
Speaker 1: for you know, a city council and things like that
Speaker 1: for our local elections.
Speaker 2: Now that's another thing. I think everybody knows we're voting
Speaker 2: for resident, but city council is right up there too,
Speaker 2: and that's the government that's closest to you, right.
Speaker 3: And I think sometimes people don't realize how important that is.
Speaker 3: You know, it impacts all of our lives all the time.
Speaker 3: So that's a good point.
Speaker 2: Just remember the president, whoever the president will be, is
Speaker 2: not going to fix your pothole. Indeed, you know you
Speaker 2: got one in front of your house. You know you're
Speaker 2: going to have to call a city councilor to get
Speaker 2: something done, you know, So just kind of keep that
Speaker 2: in mind how important.
Speaker 1: That is very much. Yeah, and there are a couple
Speaker 1: of issues to vote on on the ballot also, and
Speaker 1: it's good to read that through and kind of hack
Speaker 1: through the legal ease of the wording of it in
Speaker 1: order to get some idea what it is they're asking
Speaker 1: you to yay or nay. And the voter guide has
Speaker 1: that all written out and it's on the portal too.
Speaker 2: That's sure that voter guide up there. Did the camera
Speaker 2: real quick? There you go beautiful. Yeah, we got plenty
Speaker 2: of them here at the radio station, and then then
Speaker 2: you got them at the library and everyplace else. Now, Connie,
Speaker 2: you were looking for something in the voter guide, what
Speaker 2: were you?
Speaker 3: I just wanted to make sure that.
Speaker 2: We got it was there.
Speaker 3: There's so much information. There's any question that you would
Speaker 3: possibly have.
Speaker 1: As the presidential candidates, there's a breakdown of their positions
Speaker 1: on different topics.
Speaker 3: I think that's especially helpful, and it's it's it's what
Speaker 3: they said there. Their ideas are. It's not something somebody else,
Speaker 3: but it's like when they asked the candidates, it's.
Speaker 2: In their work's important.
Speaker 3: We even have picked sures of pictures of people if
Speaker 3: you want to know what they look like, and just
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's really it's all here to stake
Speaker 3: questions right here, and we've got plenty of them, so
Speaker 3: we really encourage people to pick one up. I think
Speaker 3: it's one of the I guess one of the most
Speaker 3: useful tools that we came up with.
Speaker 2: I think so really it's easy to read, easy to follow,
Speaker 2: and it's laid out so nicely. It must have worked
Speaker 2: day and night, night and day and month over month
Speaker 2: to get.
Speaker 1: That out somebody that yeah, luckily right.
Speaker 2: Now, coming up to of course election day, we've talked
Speaker 2: about the ease of early voting and folks needed to
Speaker 2: get their absentee things taken care of too.
Speaker 1: Now there's a deadline for applying for the absent tea
Speaker 1: and I think the mail in ones have to be notarized,
Speaker 1: so you need to find out what you have to
Speaker 1: do about that.
Speaker 2: The portal thing will tell you and so well the
Speaker 2: guide that's right. Education, You guys really have it all down.
Speaker 2: This is really good.
Speaker 3: I've been doing this. The League has been doing this
Speaker 3: for a very long time. Right after women got the
Speaker 3: right to vote, the League started. So it waste any time, no,
Speaker 3: And I don't know if we have a little bit
Speaker 3: more time. I just have this little card that I
Speaker 3: take with me and we have it. We have voting events,
Speaker 3: but because sometimes we'll be we're at the library, you
Speaker 3: know a lot of times, helping people update their registration
Speaker 3: or register for the first time, which is always exciting,
Speaker 3: and sometimes people will just walk by. I just remember
Speaker 3: two times when someone walked by and one said, it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter anyway, they're all crooks. They said, that's exactly
Speaker 3: what they said. So I know that for presidential elections
Speaker 3: most people are certainly they're aware and they're more conscientious,
Speaker 3: but really it's good to vote at every opportunity. And
Speaker 3: so I have this little thing that to remind us
Speaker 3: if voting didn't change anything, we would still have no
Speaker 3: women's rights, no public schools, no forty hour work week,
Speaker 3: no social security, no Medicare and Medicaid, no minimum wage,
Speaker 3: and no consumer protections, no right to health insurance. Those
Speaker 3: are just some of the things if people hadn't gotten
Speaker 3: out and voted, and just you know, all you have
Speaker 3: to do is your part. That's it. But it is
Speaker 3: really important to do that. As I said, I know
Speaker 3: it's on people's minds more than when it's not a
Speaker 3: presidential election. But sometimes the decision that you make and
Speaker 3: the votes impact you even more in local elections. So
Speaker 3: it's always a good idea, and we're always here to
Speaker 3: share information very.
Speaker 2: Good and we do a great job. I want to
Speaker 2: tell you a lot of folks got truly get informed
Speaker 2: here over the at least the past several months, especially
Speaker 2: with your programs and everything in your outreach and everything
Speaker 2: that you've been doing. And of course, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: even in between elections, the ladies are really at it
Speaker 2: and really looking for just about anything and everything in
Speaker 2: order to reach people and engage.
Speaker 1: One more thing we did this year we raise some
Speaker 1: money in order to make yard signs that say vote.
Speaker 1: It's your future because since you had to vote, boy
Speaker 1: does it No, we don't ever do that, I know that,
Speaker 1: but it's your future and you're your vote is important.
Speaker 2: That's great. I want to say, is there anything else
Speaker 2: that we may have missed?
Speaker 3: But you want one of the signs?
Speaker 2: Sure, I will do that. I always remember to vote.
Speaker 2: But I got a few neighbors I don't. Well, they
Speaker 2: work at night. They feel like, oh golly, you have
Speaker 2: to get up in the middle of my night in
Speaker 2: order to vote. Well, you know we can. We can
Speaker 2: help you here.
Speaker 1: Oh that's what the absentee voting is, all right right.
Speaker 2: I want to thank you both for coming in and
Speaker 2: reminding us of all the things we need to be
Speaker 2: watchful for and pick up a voter guide. Folks, they're
Speaker 2: all over town. And all over the You know you
Speaker 2: can just pick one up here anything else.
Speaker 3: The easiest place that everybody knows is the library. Right
Speaker 3: as you walk in, they've.
Speaker 1: Got a pile.
Speaker 2: Take one, take one, and take another one for your
Speaker 2: friends and neighbors. Thanks ladies,