Legislative Director
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 […]
Voter Services
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 […]
Executive Director
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 […]
President’s Report
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 […]
Legislative Session Wrap-Up
The legislative session has ended. As expected, the Legislature failed to pass any of the progressive reforms we advocated for. We weren’t the only group scorned by the Assembly and […]
From the State President
So much for those lazy, hazy days of summer we used to know! If your local League is like mine, you are having a surge of interest in the critical […]
From the State President
So much for those lazy, hazy days of summer we used to know! If your local League is like mine, you are having a surge of interest in the critical […]
Youth Programs: Vision 2018
By January, it became clear to our Leagues throughout the state of New York that our country was suffering from pains of political chaos exacerbated by a level of ignorance […]
Voter Service Report
This past year has been both challenging and rewarding for voter service committees and Leagues throughout the state. With our country becoming more polarized than ever, all our candidate events […]
Issues and Advocacy: New York State Updates
Constitutional Convention Ballot Proposal After discussion and review of the process under which the state board applies League positions to specific action and advocacy, and the precedent of how the […]