For city council and mayoral elections, Dallas is one of, if not the lowest voting cities in the US. A big reason for that is the May election date. But we can change that by moving elections to November of odd years, something that other Texas cities have already done!

Dallas voters already approved a charter amendment with more than 65% voting in favor to allow elections to be moved, and the Texas Legislature passed a similar measure with broad bi-partisan support. Now as a final step, on Wednesday, November 12th, council is voting on officially moving elections to November. Sending this email will let city council know that you want them to listen to the people and vote for this pro-democracy measure!

Moving elections to November of odd years will keep council and mayoral elections separate from most federal and state-level partisan elections while making it easier for all of us to remember that each November (or October if you vote early) is the time to vote!