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Water for Long Island

Paula Blum, Issues and Advocacy VP of the Nassau County League, has been attending meetings of “Water for Long Island.” The mission of this group is to work with Long Island water suppliers and government, community, environmental groups about water conditions on Long Island and to advance actions for effective water supply management. Most residents […]

Voter Suppression Laws Overturned in Texas, Florida, and Ohio

League of Women Voters of Texas (LWVTX The) joined the lawsuit in support of the DOJ decision. In Texas, a U.S. Federal District Court has agreed with the League and the Department of Justice that their state’s voter photo I.D. law violates Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and that the law does have […]

LWVNY Update: Campaign Finance Reform

In April, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver introduced the “2012 Fair Elections Act” (A09885D) to provide public financing for statewide campaigns.  This act was just what the League of Women Voters of New York State (LWVNY) needed to begin a new push for campaign finance reform in New York.  LWVNY immediately took two actions. First, it  […]

Message from the President’s Desk

For close to a hundred years, the League’s mission has been to encourage informed and active participation in government, to increase understanding of major public policy issues so that voters can make intelligent decisions. This past year, in many states, that mission has been made unnecessarily difficult because of new and, often, restrictive voter registration […]