Position on Selection of the President
Selection of the President
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Position on Campaign Financing
Campaign Finance
Position on Apportionment
Apportionment
Electoral Process
We advocate at the state and local level to promote representative outcomes through majority-win election methods, and for election procedures that encourage voter turnout - especially among underrepresented communities.
Coalition Demands Redistricting Commissioners Address Underrepresentation
We joined many organizations and allies in calling on the first 8 commissioners to address this dramatic and unacceptable underrepresentation when they select the next 6 commissioners. All communities must see themselves in this Commission.
LWVC Joins Letter on LCFF Emergency Regulations
January 10, 2014 Mike Kirst, President California State Board of Education 1430 N Street, Suite 5111 Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: SBE January Agenda Item #20 – LCFF Emergency Regulations Dear President Kirst: We represent a coalition of civil rights, community-based,…
Letter to an Elected Official – Report on the Administrative Office of the Courts
To the Judicial Council: The League of Women Voters of California would like to comment on the Strategic Evaluation Committee (SEC) report on the Administrative Office of the Courts. The League appreciates the hard work that went into this report,…
Position on Redistricting (State)
LWV California position on Redistricting California
Position on Voting Rights (National)
National Citizen’s Right to Vote Position
League Through the Decades
Founding and Early History: From the spirit of the suffrage movement and the shock of the First World War came a great idea – that a nonpartisan civic organization could provide the education and experience the public needed to assure…