On Monday October 21, 2018 we hosted the NYS Senate District 9 Candidate Forum Kaminsky v Becker. We hope that you find this information helpful as you go to the polls in November.Continue Reading
On Monday October 21, 2018 we hosted the NYS Senate District 9 Candidate Forum Kaminsky v Becker. We hope that you find this information helpful as you go to the polls in November.Continue Reading
Madeline Zevon, Co-Chair of the LWVNYS Health Committee, wrote an OpEd in the Lohud media of Westchester County on the issue of single payer health care. See her OpEd here. Diane Burrows of LWV of NYC was highlighted in a NY Times article about her work as a poll worker. Read it here. Two of...Continue Reading
This year we didn’t do as well as 2016 at the State Fair in Syracuse but we are happy that we were able to distribute so much voter information to people and to alert them to the primary date change. Here were the totals: Registration Form Completed – 144 Registration Form Taken but not Completed...Continue Reading
Yes, we do realize that it’s already October and this is the September State Voter, but I think most of you understand. This fall is already going way too fast and we just haven’t had enough time to do all that we want. Thanks to all of the great work our members provided on Primary...Continue Reading
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
