Leagues nationwide are excited to once again take part in National Voter Registration Day, a nationwide, nonpartisan effort to register hundreds of thousands of voters on one single day – September 25th, 2018 – and we hope you’ll join us! On September 25th , thousands of volunteers from hundreds of diverse organizations will unleash a...Continue Reading
Jennifer Wilson, Jennifer@lwvny.org In 2017/2018 21 Leagues held approximately 109 voter registration drives where they registered approximately 3,665 voters. They participated in 123 naturalization ceremonies where they registered 10,026 new voters. Additionally, Leagues have been making major strides to engage with more high schools – Leagues visited approximately 28 high schools where they registered 713...Continue Reading
Judie Gorenstein, judiel728@aol.com Leagues throughout New York are extremely busy preparing and running voter registration drives, candidate events, and hopefully working on ways to turn out the vote. To help in this very challenging year, an edited and updated Road to the Voting Booth Part II and also Toolkit for running candidate events has been...Continue Reading
Laura Ladd Bierman, Laura@lwvny.org Voting NewYork.org is LIVE! The state League’s electronic voter guide is now live for the September primary. Only candidates that are included in the primary are in the guide. All candidates for the November election will be included after the primary. A Toolkit with sample press releases, logo, links, etc is...Continue Reading
Dare Thompson, darethompson@gmail.com I’m writing this at the State Fair – at the League’s voter registration corner in the Art and Home Center. I’m surrounded by flyers, forms, stickers, and buttons that Laura and Jen set up earlier, and there’s a big list of League people from all over who’ve signed up for shifts during...Continue Reading
The highlight of the LWV of Buffalo/Niagara’s Education Committee’s year was the May 23, 2018, forum Perspectives on What Works in Public Education, an informative panel featuring the following national and local educators: Sherry Cleary, executive director, New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute;David Mauricio, chief of Strategic Alignment & Innovation, Buffalo Public Schools; John...Continue Reading
Thursday-June 28, 2018 As League members from around the country descended on Chicago, our pre-Con day kicked off with an advocacy and organizing training. Hundreds of League attendees participated in a lively, candid, and productive conversation about how we can best mobilize and organize for success in this challenging new environment. This Wellstone Action training...Continue Reading
Friday-June 29, 2018 Our first plenary session kicked off with a message from Toni Preckwinkle, president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. Welcoming the League to Chicago, she spoke about the “precarious time in our nation’s history” and urged leaders to take action in this moment. Democracy is both the best and most fragile...Continue Reading
Saturday-June 30, 2018 The morning kicked off with an update from the Credentials Committee by Jill Althage who reported the total number of voting delegates 865. The report was accepted by unanimous consent. After LWVUS Secretary Toni Zimmer delivered the previous day’s activities we heard from Deborah Turner LWVUS board member about the Diversity, Equity,...Continue Reading
Sunday-July 1, 2018 Our final day of Convention plenary kicked off with our final Credentials Committee Report. A total of 762 Leagues (including ILOs) were represented with 867 voting delegates from 49 states plus the District of Columbia. The report was accepted by unanimous consent. Carrie Davis the Democracy Program Director for The Joyce Foundation...Continue Reading
