Just last week, 60 high school students from across the state came to Albany to learn how to engage with their state government. The students were excited and interested in learning how to become part of the governmental decision-making process. The 60 students came from 43 local Leagues, MAL Units and ILOs; 16 boys and...Continue Reading
Voter Services on the state, county, and local level are and will continue to be extremely busy this year. With the new reforms in our election laws, increased interest and involvement of young people in civics, and our highly polarized political climate where it is often difficult to get the facts, our mission to involve...Continue Reading
(register online at https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/MPjzKWEH__gPayLis8Y0EQ ) “Civil Discourse: How Can We Achieve That Today?” Friday, June 7, 6:30 pm Robert Boatright, PhD, Director of Research, National Institute of Civil Discourse and Professor and Chair, Political Science Department, Clark University “Action Civics: A 21st Century Approach to Educating Youth for Democratic Participation” Saturday, June 8, 12 noon...Continue Reading
Happy Birthday to us all! We’re sure that many of you have planned celebrations, events and activities to celebrate the League’s 100th anniversary. We will be posting a new resource kit on the state website in the next week, with examples of many of the great ideas already implemented. We hope others will share these...Continue Reading
This month the challenges as well as the opportunities for voter service have continued. The challenge is to gather information and progress that state and county BOEs are making, find out more specifics, and disseminate it to first our local Leagues and then to the voters. The Making Our Democracy Grant we received from LWVUS...Continue Reading
Representatives of the LWV of Nassau County Inter-League Organization (ILO), including Barbara Epstein of the LWV of East Nassau, met recently with representatives of the NC Board of Elections to discuss early voting, electronic voting books, and other new changes to the way we will be voting in NYS. Continue Reading
Delegates can volunteer at times other than plenary session and volunteers for plenary can observe plenary session. Volunteers may also sit in on workshops and other events, excluding meals, without paying. Unfortunately, the meals are expensive so they would have to register and pay to attend a meal event. Volunteers are usually booked for a...Continue Reading
Plans for showcasing our youth programs at convention have progressed. Convention workshop for Youth Programs is scheduled for Saturday, June 8, from 8:30 -9:45 AM. The three programs that youth chairs chose to be highlighted are: Youth Engaging Youth, Next Step (LWV of Huntington) Citizenship and Political Activism (CAPA) (LWV of the North Country) Running...Continue Reading
During the past month, the state League provided testimony on many issues (see the testimony on the state League website homepage): NYS Complete Count Commission on the 2020 Census NY Health Act Automatic Voter Registration (to be given on Thursday this week) Before NYC BOE: Early Voting Implementation Laura Ladd Bierman, LWVNYS Executive Director, is...Continue Reading
There are a number of workshops at Convention on advocacy topics. On Friday evening, Jennifer Wilson, former LWVNYS Legislative Director, will lead a workshop on advocacy training and current hot topics in the legislature. Beth Radow, LWVNYS Chair of the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Committee, will lead a workshop on Food Waste and Food Insecurity...Continue Reading
