Know Your Ballot: An Opportunity to Educate

Becoming an Informed Voter Is the Best Way to Support Your Community!

The President's Commission on the Status of Women (COSW) Social Justice Committee (SJC) encourages you to exercise your civic duty by becoming an informed voter ahead of the November 2022 election. Visit these websites and links for the Where, What and When of voting because voting is socially just! View/download the flyer.

Make a Difference with Your Informed Vote!

These pages will provide you with links to election information for the State of Michigan including candidates and full proposal language: https://www.michigan.gov/sos/elections

This page lists those candidates who have filed for upcoming State of Michigan elections and proposals that will be on all ballots statewide. This link has the state candidates and full text proposals: https://www.michigan.gov/sos/elections/upcoming-election-information/voters/candidatesproposals

Looking for Your Voting District and/or Polling Location?

This page provides helpful information about where to find your clerk, polling place and sample ballots: https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/Voter/Index

This page will provide you with links to election-related sites for things such as sample ballots, requesting/tracking absentee ballots, verifying voter registration and many other sites: https://www.michigan.gov/sos/elections/upcoming-election-information/voters/where

Are You Aware of What the Candidates in your District Stand For?

This page will ask for your address and help you create a plan to vote including research for every name and measure on the ballot: https://www.ballotready.org/