VOTER NEWSLETTER
Vol. 66, No. 1 August 2026 Editor: Virginia Marsh
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- Would You Like to Serve on Richardson's City Council?
- Opportunities to Help Register Voters
- LWVR is Reviewing All Its Positions
- CHIP and Children's Medicaid Health Fair
- North Texas Giving Day
- Have a question for TX HD 102 or 112 Candidates?
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Key Dates in August 2026
- Aug 7 Applications for Place 3 Richardson City Council Due
- Aug 22 CHIP Health Fair at St Barnabas Church
- Aug 27 Review of Our Local Positions
- Aug 27 North Texas Giving Starts
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Would you like to serve on Richardson City Council?
Do you live in Place 3?
| Richardson City Council Place 3 is currently open. When there is one vacancy on City Council (other than the Mayor), the vacancy is filled by appointment through a majority vote of the remaining members of City Council. The appointee must meet the qualifications required by the City Charter and will serve the remainder of the unexpired term, which ends May 1, 2027. The process ends when Council votes on the replacement on September 28. The newly-appointed Council member will be sworn in at that time.
The period for applying to fill the open Place 3 seat is currently open through Friday, August 7, 2026 at midnight.
Are you interested? Are you qualified? Do you live in Place 3? (Per the City Charter, the replacement must live in Richardson's Place 3, which is southwest Richardson.)
For all the details on the process (incuding the schedule), eligibility requirements, a tool to help you find out if you live in Place 3, a link to apply, or to download a printable application, go to the
The next City Council election will be in May, 2027.
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Opportunities to Help Register Voters
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While the weather is heating up, voter registration activities are too! Many thanks to the LWV Richardson volunteers who have been active in registering voters this summer, despite the heat! We have several events planned for August to include working with the
- RISD PTA Fair at Berkner High School,
- St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church's Health Fair, and
- Boho Market in CityLine.
We are also planning our National Voter Registration Month events.
- National Voter Registration Month: September
- National Voter Registration Day: September 15, 2026
We need help assembling packets with materials to promote voter registration and voting in general. Volunteers are always needed to help with actual registration activities Being a Volunteer Deputy Registrar (VDR) is not a requirement to help with local LWVR tasks. If you are interested in helping our Richardson League with these endeavors (or in any other capacity), please reach out to
Janet Centola
In addition to LWVRichardson voter registration events, some LWVR members provide VDR support for other voter registration organizations, such as Dallas County Elections Department (DCED), which has a robust community outreach program. The DCED program includes voter registration events at naturalization ceremonies, County Government offices, City of Dallas libraries, and more. Usually, there are many events every week. If you are interested in being active in DCED voter registration events, please contact
Cathy Murphree
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LWVR Is Reviewing All Its Local Positions
Next Zoom meeting: Thursday, August 27
| LWVR's Local Program Planning meeting was held on February 11. It was determined that, although there is no need to change our positions, we should review their language and consider revisions that would broaden their application. Our positions may be found here.
Three local positions (1, 2, 3 and 7) have already been reviewed. The schedule to review the remaining positions via Zoom at 7pm:
- August 27 - Position 4: Child Care in Richardson with this Zoom link.
- September 24 - Position 5: Public Health Care Services in Richardson & Position 6: Video Recording City Council and RISD Trustee Meetings
- October 22 - Review proposed changes for all 7 positions
Although only LWVR members can vote to make changes to a position, we invite the larger community to attend a meeting to give input. We welcome your insight in proposing updated language for our positions. | CHIP and Children’s Medicaid have been well received by Texas families and these programs help to assure that our children have adequate preventative care in addition to coverage for more complex medical care. It is much more cost effective to provide immunizations, check-ups, and early intervention in childhood illnesses than to wait for a problem to develop into an emergency.
Our next opportunity to help will be during the Health Fair on
August 22, 2026
from 9 am to noon
at St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church
1220 West Belt Line
Road, Richardson, 75080
| Please invite anyone you think may benefit to attend on August 22.
As usual, Texas leads the nation in the number of uninsured children. Families who do not have coverage through their employment such as seasonal workers, employees who work part-time, grandparents who are raising their grandchildren on a fixed income, those who are currently unemployed, and teenagers who are “on their own” are some who might have eligible children. Thank you for your support and help. Federal funding for health care and for the non-profits that assist families that are challenged to afford health care has decreased. Anything we can do is even more important than ever. |
Mark Your Calendars for North Texas Giving Day
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Mark your calendars now for
Thursday,
September 17, 2026
We are once again thrilled to be able to participate in the North Texas Giving Day event this year.
Click here in order to go directly to LWVRichardson's NTX Giving page for more information or to make donations. Early giving begins Thursday, August 27. Please share this information with your family and friends.
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Have a question for TX HD 102 or 112 Candidates?
| One way LWVRichardson works alongside Leagues all across Texas is by hosting forums for candidates running in state and local elected offices. LWVTexas assigns various congressional districts to specific leagues prior to statewide elections. For the November, 2026, elections, the Richardson League is responsible for Texas House Districts 102 (Ana-Maria Ramos, incumbent, vs. Bonnie Abadie) and 112 (Angie Chen Button, incumbent, vs. Zach Herbert).
The Voter Service Team welcomes suggestions and help in writing questions for the forums which will be scheduled in early October. We have two ways all our members or other community members can help in compiling questions for consideration:
- Submit questions online to forums@lwvrichardson.org.
- Join LWVR's question-writing Zoom meeting on September 9 at 7:00 p.m. Respond to forums@lwvrichardson.org if you want the link to this question-writing meeting.
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