We crushed election season!

What an election season! The 2022 primary and general elections were wild for CivicLex - we hosted forums and events, built voter education resources, and knocked doors to encourage people to vote local - for anyone! Here's just a few takeaways from what we did.

- Our election hub LexVote was used by over 20,000 Fayette County voters to plan their ballots - that’s a little more than 20% of all Fayette County voters who participated in the general.

- We hosted a dynamic (and fun!) Council at Large forum that gave voters a chance to connect directly with candidates in small, facilitated group conversations instead of the traditional (and frankly, not effective) stage and audience setup. We also partnered with organizations across the ideological spectrum - from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth to Americans for Prosperity. Plus there was free ice cream!

- Through social gatherings and online resources, we provided opportunities for voters to learn about the bottom of ballot races like Soil and Water Conservation District Specialists and Coroner.

- We hosted fun voter education events like our Candidate Guess Who and Coffee & Campaign Finance events, teaching voters about the process of running for office and how to lookup campaign donors.

- We launched a new radio show segment called Civic Shorts on our local NPR affiliate that will keep going after the election!

We did all of this without diving into the partisan state and national races that so polarize the electorate. Local races are important - they touch your life significantly more than state and national - and they’re still the places where we can find compromise across ideology and where voters can most personally engage with our democratic process.

Big ups to our staff - Megan Gulla, Kit Anderson, Adrian Paul Bryant, Gillian Stawiszynski for all their hard work. It paid off!

We’re excited to do it all again in two years!