The League of Women Voters of Port Washington-Manhasset wishes to honor our members. The keynote speaker will be Yurij Rudensky, Brennan Center of Justice Redistricting Expert. RSVP and buy your tickets for this event online.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
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 League board applied the Constitutional Convention position to the 1997 ballot question, the 2017-2019 State board agreed at its first meeting after Convention 2017 that […]Continue Reading
We know that many of you want to know what the state League board decided at its March 23-24 meeting about the position the League will take on the 2017 Constitutional Convention ballot question (oppose, support, or remain neutral). And we want you to know that the discussions many local Leagues held on this topic […]Continue Reading
Leagues across the country have seen an impressive increase in membership in recent months, as new Leagues are forming from Utah to Georgia to Pennsylvania. We continue to be recognized as a go-to organization advocating for voting rights. The League is a trusted source when this key issue is in the news such as the...Continue Reading
To further our efforts on this crucial representation issue, the League has joined up with three other organizations and named ourselves, Nassau County United Redistricting Coalition (“Coalition”), an independent non-partisan coalition co-founded by LatinoJustice, Common Cause New York, La Fuente, and, the League of Women Voters of Nassau County; we have also developed and launched the...Continue Reading
DEADLINES: Apply for absentee ballot in person by Monday, November 3, 2014 Apply for absentee ballot by mail: postmarked by Tuesday, October 28, 2014 Deliver ballot in person by Tuesday, November 4, 2014 Deliver ballot by mail: postmarked by Monday, November 3, 2014; received by Wednesday, November 12, 2014. NEW! Vote 411: Electronic Voter Guide is LIVE […]Continue Reading
