The York-James City-Williamsburg NAACP Civic Engagement Committee and the Williamsburg Area League of Women Voters invite the public to “Making Your Vote Count in 2021,” a virtual voter education forumWednesday, April 14, at 7 PM. Click here to register in advance to receive a Zoom link for this free event. Dianna Moorman, Director of Elections…
LWV Williamsburg Book Club!
Wednesday, March 31; 4 PM. We chose HOMEGOING, a novel by Yaa Gyasi that follows two sisters — one who is sold into slavery, and another who marries an Englishman. One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year and a PEN/Hemingway award winner, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold…
What Do You Know About Criminal Justice Reform in Virginia?
Do We Need Independent Civilian Oversight Boards? Wednesday, March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day)7 PM We have invited Jessica Sapalio, an advocate for racial justice and criminal legal system reform and a founding member of the WJCC Coalition for Community Justice, to update us on recent reforms in criminal justice that were just passed by the…
State League Issues Groups
Do you know how the League of Women Voters works to shape and direct state law and policy? Issues Groups are the basis for League lobbying. Groups lobby from a position on an issue and stay on top of changes in the issue of interest. Are you interested in any of these issues? Join the…
Advocacy Challenge 2021!
The new Advocacy Challenge is out, and your Local League could win! The challenge starts now. This friendly competition measures advocacy, proportionate to the size of your Local League. Winners will be notified at Convention in 2021. The Virginia General Assembly is already filing bills for the Jan 13, 2021 General Session. Here is how you can…
Learn about the upcoming General Assembly session
LWV-VA Women’s Legislative Pre-Session Wednesday, December 2Virtual & FREE in 2020 Every year in December, the League of Women Voters of Virginia sponsors a Pre-Session Women’s Legislative Roundtable before the next Virginia General Assembly Session. Directors and policy and advocacy experts from many nonprofit organizations speak about their priority issues and legislation, and give their predictions…
What does Virginia’s redistricting amendment change?
Printable version The Status Quo: Process Districts drawn by the General Assembly Zero requirements for transparency or public engagement Redistricting occurs the year following the Census, but the General Assembly can also choose to redistrict mid-decade Map drawing criteria SB717 & the current constitution: contiguous, compactness, equal population requirement, preservation of communities of interest, prohibits…
What’s on the Virginia ballot about redistricting
We believe that amending the constitution is the only way to clarify a partisan legislature’s role in redistricting. The current method for drawing new districts (which happens every ten years after a census) is outlined inArticle II, Section 6 of the current Virginia Constitution: “electoral districts (are) established by the General Assembly.” However, there are…
Get excited! There’s a Redistricting Amendment on the Virginia ballot November 3
Get excited – there’s a big change coming to Virginia politics, and you can be a part of it when you vote this fall. Along with all the famous people on the ballot this fall, there is a new Virginia constitutional amendment for the state’s voters to consider. Two consecutive General Assemblies (first with a…
Civics 101: The FIGHT for VOTING RIGHTS IN AMERICA: Past, Present & Future
CIVICS 101 webinar #2Tuesday, July 21 at 4 p.m. A good way to catch up on the context for Virginia’s changes to election laws and rules coming for the November election. For LWV members & the public; please pass this on to friends or organizations that may be interested How did voting rights in our…