Jeanette Senecal is the chief of civic learning and impact at the League of Women Voters of the United States. She leads a multidisciplinary team responsible for ensuring that all public and internal programmatic initiatives are strategically aligned to maximize civic engagement and democratic participation.
Jeanette joined the League in 1999 as part of the e-Democracy team to launch DemocracyNet, a first-of-its-kind voter information website from the League that helped alter voters' interactions with candidates, campaigns, and democracy.
Jeanette’s tireless work with the over 500 DemocracyNet employees and volunteers nationwide provided the lessons and a roadmap to launch the League’s award-winning, and now bilingual, VOTE411.org website in 2006. A key part of the League’s voter engagement and education work, VOTE411 reached over 9.3 million voters in 2024. Jeanette also leads the League’s efforts on issues such as reforming and modernizing election laws and expanding civic engagement and empowerment opportunities for all voters. Much of Jeanette’s expertise focuses on working with Leagues and volunteers to innovate and engage with voters both online and offline, and providing ongoing strategic guidance to Leagues and partners alike.
Jeanette also heads up initiatives such as the Democracy Truth project, Public Advocacy for Voter Protection project, and voter registration programs in high schools, community colleges, and naturalization ceremonies that protect and reach out to the nation’s underrepresented voters. Her leadership has helped position the League as a national leader in the election and voting arena.
VOTE411.org served thousands of voters on the May 8th primary. The website is on track to help more than 2 million Americans this election year!
Today, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute. I joined other advocates calling for an end to voter purges.
Congratulate the graduates you know on their achievement and encourage them to register to vote with our eCard.The League’s eCard directs recipients to VOTE411.org where new voters can easily start the voter registration process.
The 2016 primaries are not the only important elections coming up. On Tuesday, November 3, thousands of important state and local elections will happen across the country.
Help us reach unregistered voters before their state’s voter registration deadline passes – send our eCard to people you know who have moved, turned 18, changed their name or recently became a citizen!
Independence Day marks the birth of our nation and the signing of the Declaration of Independence that outlined the key tenets that our Constitution would be based on.
Congratulate the graduates you know on their achievement and encourage them to register to vote with our eCard.
Now is the time to start thinking about how and when you’ll vote. In addition to getting ready to vote as you have in years past, voters in many states may also need to show voter identification in order to cast a ballot.
On Election Day - Tuesday, November 4 - voters across the country will head to the polls to cast their votes in thousands of local, state and federal elections. Now is the time to start thinking about how and when you’ll vote.
Graduation is a major milestone. We want to help recent graduates become active and engaged members of their new communities – help us encourage them to register to vote!