Voter Information
VOTE411 is an online voter guide with election related information. It is committed to ensuring voters have the information they need to successfully participate in every election. VOTE4111 provides nonpartisan information to the public with both general and state-specific information on the election process. It is unbiased, relevant and easy to use, considered the most trusted nonpartisan election website. There is now a new campaign finance feature allowing people to see the financial backers of federal candidates. 9.19 million users received election information in 2024 from VOTE411 in English and Spanish.
WHY IS VOTE411 IMPORTANT?
In a democracy, people choose leaders by voting. Every person deserves to have election information including candidates’ positions on issues that matter the most in our everyday lives. The right to vote is essential and allows us to speak on these issues. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find balanced and impartial information about the candidates running for office.
WHO OWNS VOTE411?
The League of Women Voters Education Fund owns and operates VOTE411, going beyond MyVote.wi.gov to include how candidates running for office stand on the challenges and issues facing their communities.
WHEN CAN I USE VOTE411?
The VOTE411 online voter guide is published prior to each election. The online guide will be available at the end of January for the February primary election when there is one. It is available in March for the April Spring Election. In the fall, it is available in August for the primary election and October when there is a November election.
HOW DOES VOTE411 WORK?
Go to VOTE411.org, fill in your address and see your polling place location, what is on your personal upcoming election ballot, and compare candidates’ answers to questions posed by the League.
You can print or email the information to use as a reference when you actually vote. You can even take it to the polls with you on your cell phone or tablet. VOTE411 does not save your information, it will be lost when you leave the site.
HOW ARE THE QUESTIONS CREATED?
The National League (LWV-US) creates questions for candidates running for national offices. The State League (LWV-WI) creates questions for candidates running for state offices. The VOTE411 team in LWVMC creates the questions that are posed to candidates running for local offices. The Community volunteers suggest questions and the VOTE411 team solicits ideas for questions with articles in the weekly Update. The questions undergo a review process before being finalized.
HOW IS THE VOTER GUIDE CREATED?
Prior to each election, the VOTE411 team electronically invites all candidates to participate in our guide, asking them for biographical information and requesting their response to issue related questions. They will have approximately two weeks to reply. Candidates who do not respond will have “No response” placed next to their names in the Guide.
Candidate Information
Shortly after you become a candidate for office, you receive an invitation from the League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County to participate in its online voter guide, VOTE411.
WHAT IS VOTE411?
Vote411 is the award-winning nonpartisan online voter guide provided by the League of Women Voters Education Fund. It helps educate voters, so they have the information they need to participate in every election. From polling place information to candidate positions on issues of importance to the voters, VOTE411 is a one-stop shop to find everything needed to be an informed voter.
WHY SHOULD I PARTICIPATE IN VOTE411?
The VOTE411 online guide is unique. With one stop it provides voters with access to polling place information, ballots questions and unbiased and credible information about candidates for Federal, State and Local elections. Even judiciary and school board elections are covered in the guide. All the voter has to do is enter their address.
HOW DO I PARTICIPATE IN VOTE411?
It is easy to participate. All candidates for a particular position receive the same 4 – 5 questions. The questions are easy to answer and much of the information may already be available in your promotional material. Your answer the questions, on your own page, directly in VOTE411. Your answers are printed verbatim. There is no editing of your responses. Everything else (hosting, maintaining, troubleshooting) is taken care of by the League.
WHAT ELSE SHOULD I KNOW?
VOTE411 won Webby’s People’s Choice Award in 2020 and Webby’s Government & Associations: Websites Mobile Sites Award in 2024. The Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), is the leading international awards organization honoring excellence on the Internet. In 2024, VOTE411 was also named a first-place winner for a “non-profit and literacy platform” in the 4th Annual Anthem Awards. Anthem Winners are selected by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
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Clerk Information
More Information Coming February 2026
Member Information
As members of the League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County, you are also voters. You can read about VOTE411 on the Voters Page so you are informed about the League’s online voter guide, VOTE411.org. Continue here to find out what you can do as a League member.
The VOTE411 online voter guide is only as good as the information it contains, which means that it is valuable to the extent that candidates respond to our invitation and answer our questions.
If the Voter Guide has been published (the VOTE411 team will let you know in the Weekly Update), can you please go to VOTE411.org now and enter your street address. This will bring up your personal ballot. Check out the candidates running for the local races.
1.If your candidate(s) has answered our questions, thank them!
You can do this with a phone call or a text message. An email or even social media can be used to contact them. Here is a sample script:
Thank you @[candidate] for responding to @VOTE411’s Voter Guide so that voters can be informed before casting their vote! ?️ #LWVVoterGuide
2. If your candidate(s) has NOT answered our questions, call on them to do so!
Here you really want to reach them in case they don’t remember receiving the invitation. Here is a sample script:
As voters, we want to hear where our candidates stand on the issues. That’s why we're calling on @[candidate] to respond to @VOTE411’s Voter Guide so we can be informed before casting our ballot! #LWVVoterGuide
Here are other scripts you can post on your social media platforms to reach out to your candidates who haven’t answered the League’s questions.
SOCIAL MEDIA – Post to your socials!
As voters, we deserve to know where our candidates stand on the issues that matter. That’s why I’m calling on [CANDIDATE] to respond to the @VOTE411 voter guide so I can be informed before casting my ballot. #VOTE411
In my informed voter era and I need to hear [CANDIDATE’S] stance on the issues that I care about by responding to @VOTE411’s voter guides. #VOTE411
It’s election season and we need to hear from every candidate! That’s why I’m calling on [CANDIDATE] to respond to @VOTE411’s voter guide. #VOTE411
It’s officially #ElectionSeason and voters need to hear from every candidate. Hey, [CANDIDATE] -- can you respond to @VOTE411’s voter guide? #VOTE411
We should all be entering 2024 as informed voters! That’s why it’s important for every candidate to respond to @VOTE411’s voter guides. Hey [CANDIDATE] I’d like to hear where you stand on issues I care about. #VOTE411
Before we cast our ballots, it’s important to know where our candidates stand on the issues that matter. [CANDIDATE], please respond to @VOTE411’s voter guide. #VOTE411
3. Ask your followers to join you!
As voters, we need to hear where our candidates stand on the issues. Share this post or create your own to call on @[candidate] to respond to @VOTE411's Voter Guide and give us the info we need to cast our ballots!