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