Every LCV event runs on three to five members with actual titles. Here are the titles.
Books the room, opens the door, closes it at the end. The single most useful person in the organization.
Sends the identical written invitations, logs every RSVP, greets candidates on arrival, makes sure every one of them gets the same treatment. This role is the nonpartisanship guarantee in human form.
Runs the room. Introductions by name and office only. Keeps the timing fair. Handles the one person who won’t stop talking.
Stands up at every event and delivers the filing-week segment. Short script, and we’ll rehearse it with you. We expect this role to recruit more future candidates than anything else we do.
Meets people at the door, learns names, makes the room feel like somewhere you’d come back to. Underrated. Decisive.
Every disbursement above $500 requires two signers, so every chapter needs a second set of eyes on money.
Works with the county elections office to build the Empty Ballot List. Public-records research, mostly by email and spreadsheet, from wherever you are. Excellent for students.
Sends the questionnaires, chases the deadlines, formats the answers, prints exactly what candidates wrote. Requires a steady hand and no editorial impulse.
During filing week, sits with people while they fill out the paperwork. Answers process questions. Never touches message or money. The highest-leverage volunteer week of the year.
Keeps in touch with workshop graduates between quarters so they don’t disappear.
Before you run your first event, we’ll spend twenty minutes with you on the bright line: what nonpartisan treatment actually looks like in a room, and the four or five things well-meaning volunteers get wrong. It’s a conversation, not a memo, and it’s the most important training we do.
The League runs on volunteers who hold a title and know what it means. Every role below has a one-paragraph description, a training prerequisite, and a person to call. New members get a mentor within 30 days and a named role within 90.
Every role is nonpartisan by definition. No role involves supporting or opposing any candidate, party, or position.
| Role | What you do | Prerequisite | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emcee | Opens and closes meet-and-greets; delivers the five-minute standing segment (“what filing week is, what it costs, how you could be on this ballot”); never comments on candidates. | Basic Training + Moderator Certification | 3 hrs/month |
| Moderator | Runs the candidate segment to the Equal-Treatment Standard: reads questions as written, keeps identical time, announces the order draw, says nothing else. | Moderator Certification | 3 hrs/month |
| Candidate Liaison | Sends identical invitations to every ballot-qualified candidate with proof of delivery; records RSVPs; briefs candidates on the format; keeps the invitation log. | Basic Training | 4 hrs/month in season |
| Guide Editor | Assembles the voter guide: identical questions to every candidate, responses printed unedited, “no response” without comment; keeps the drafting record. | Moderator Certification | 8 hrs per guide |
| Log Keeper | Maintains the event and guide logs the Standard requires and produces them on request. | Basic Training | 1 hr/month |
| List Researcher | Compiles the county Empty Ballot List each January from the auditor’s filings; verifies public reports; updates through filing week. | Basic Training | 10 hrs Jan–May |
| Kit Steward | Orders, stores, and brings the Meet-and-Greet and Filing Week Kits; restocks; returns the banner. | Basic Training | 1 hr/month |
| Ballot Check Caller | Calls lapsed and new members in January and May and after the general election, from the script. | Basic Training | 3 hrs, three times a year |
| Registration Table Lead | Runs nonpartisan voter registration and Future Voter sign-up at events using the state tool. | Basic Training | 2 hrs/event |
| New-Citizen Welcome Lead | Staffs the chapter table at naturalization ceremonies with welcome packets. | Basic Training | 3 hrs/ceremony |
| Venue Partner Liaison | Recruits libraries, granges, service clubs, colleges, and veterans’ posts as hosts; secures insurance certificates. | Chapter Officer Course (any module) | 2 hrs/month |
| Youth County Director | Plans and runs the chapter’s Youth County under the program rules; recruits faculty from the Bench. | Basic Training + Moderator Certification + youth-protection screening | 40 hrs Feb–June |
| Youth County Counselor | Supervises a mock city on the day; two-adult rule. | Basic Training + youth-protection screening | 10 hrs |
| Oration Contest Chair | Runs the chapter contest; recruits judges; keeps scoresheets. | Basic Training | 10 hrs Dec–Jan |
| Bench Coordinator | Maintains the county’s roster of former officeholders; matches panel requests; runs the Bench orientation. | Chapter Officer Course | 2 hrs/month |
| Teacher Liaison | Places the Empty Ballot Research Project and the Parent & Teacher Guide with local schools. | Basic Training | 2 hrs/month |
| Filing Editor | Writes the chapter’s items for The Filing each month. | Basic Training | 2 hrs/month |
| Regional Organizer | Covers 3–5 counties: charter recruiting, the Tour stop, quarterly check-ins with chapter chairs. One-year term. | Charter Leadership Academy | 6 hrs/month |
| Chapter Chair / Vice Chair / Secretary / Treasurer | The four chapter officers; duties in the Bylaws and the Chapter Officer Guide. | Basic Training + Chapter Officer Course | 6–10 hrs/month |
Every role: you may hold any personal political view and act on it in your own name. In any League role you speak for no candidate, party, or position. If you become a candidate or take a paid or titled campaign role, you step away from every League role until the election is certified.
Twice a year, members call every lapsed and every new member. January: “The Empty Ballot List comes out in February — here is what’s open in your district.” May: “Filing week is next week.” After each general election: a reminder that names no candidate. A script and a call list come with the role; Basic Training is the prerequisite.
One volunteer for every three to five counties, one-year term: recruits charters, hosts the Empty Ballot Tour stop in each county, and checks in with every chapter chair each quarter. Prerequisite: Charter Leadership Academy. Recognized on the Assembly agenda.
$100 to $250 for a meeting room, printing, or refreshments for a Learn to Run session or a filing-week clinic — in any county, chartered or not. Decision within ten business days by the Vice President. Receipts within 60 days. Funded from the national share of dues under the 95-cent pledge; the count of grants made is published in the June Contested Ballot Report.
Thank you. The Vice President decides within ten business days. Funds are paid to the venue or vendor directly, or reimbursed against receipts submitted within 60 days.
Two out of three elections in this country last year had one name on the ballot. The League of Constitutional Voters is a nonpartisan membership organization — no endorsements, no positions, ever, written into Article I of our bylaws — that exists to fix that, county by county. Members run monthly candidate meet-and-greets where every candidate gets the same chair and the same questions, teach free workshops on how to run for office, and publish the Empty Ballot List every February so no seat goes unnoticed. Dues start at $10. You will have a named job within 90 days. Learn how your government works, lead a program, and serve your county. Join at lcvoters.org.