According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, 27 percent of data breaches in 2017 were medical or health related. This is unfortunate news on several fronts. Medical identity theft can be difficult to detect, be hard to correct and create potential health risks. It’s growing: Medical identity theft is becoming more common. Medical providers’ security...Continue Reading
Click to download your copy of the English Early Voting brochure for more information. Do you know: How to register to vote? Where to vote? What candidates are on your ballot? Your candidate’s position on issues? To get answers to all of these questions: Go to www.Vote411.org League of Women Voters of...Continue Reading
There are fifteen (15) early voting poll sites in Nassau County. Voters can go to ANY of the early voting poll sites in this county during early voting. On election day (Nov. 5) voters must go to their assigned election day polling place. Nassau County Board of Elections New York State Board of Elections Voter Look Up (to...Continue Reading
Brent Staples of the New York Times published an op-ed titled, How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women. The League of Women Voters was not mentioned in the piece, but we should have been. The League was founded in 1920—just months before the ratification of the 19th Amendment—by American suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt. Catt was...Continue Reading
Long Islanders love their lawns, and work hard to keep them green and free of weeds. More than 200,000 acres of Long Island are lawns. These lawns are as green as they are because they are fertilized every year. Some of the fertilizer is used by the grass roots, but quite a bit of it...Continue Reading
Histories of the State and Local Leagues in NYS In celebration of the state League’s 100th anniversary, the LWV of NYS has published two books: one commemorating the state League’s 100 years and one of histories from many of our local Leagues. You can purchase your copies now on the LWVNYS website:lwvny.org. A Force to...Continue Reading
From the beginning — even at its birth — the LWV was controversial: It was to be political — but non-partisan. Always a tricky balance — as you well know. It was to be a women’s political organization, but outside of the political parties. Also tricky. But you have faithfully and joyfully followed that idealistic...Continue Reading
The state League received a grant as part of the Making Democracy Work sponsored by The League of Women Voters of US Education Fund. Our project is to educate citizens throughout New York State on all of the new voting laws and also to evaluate the implementation of the new laws during the election. The...Continue Reading
