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Welcome to the League of Women Voters
of Tompkins County
website!
About
Us
After women
got the vote in 1920 the League of Women Voters was established and
Tompkins County organized an active League membership that same year.
Today our organization numbers over 120 women and men and we invite
your participation.
The League of Women Voters,
a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active
participation in government, works to increase understanding of major
public policy issues, and influences public policy through education
and advocacy. Any person of voting age, male or female, may become
a League member. Click here for more information
The League
of Women Voters is non-partisan, but we are political. Our activities
fall into three categories:
Voter
Service The League is well-known for promoting
informed voting. We provide voter registration, candidates forums,
impartial information on ballot measures, and educational meetings
on issues of public concern.
Program The
League of Women Voters takes positions on local, state and national
issues only after members have studied and reached agreement on them.
Please see our program page for details.
Advocacy The
League never supports or opposes political parties or candidates.
Based on positions developed through member study and agreement,
the League does take action to support or oppose specific governmental
policies.
Ithaca
High School senior, Carolyn Eggleston, was one of the two Tompkins
County
representatives toto participate in the annual Students Inside
Albany conference. Carolyn recently
attended the League of Women Voters Annual Dinner to share her experiences
with League members. Pictured with her mother and grandmother.
Calendar
Voter Service
Action
Alerts
- Campaign financing in our nation is corrupting our political system
with secret money from special interests and large outside funders.
Tell your Senators that you want to clean up our political system.
Already in this election cycle we have seen a slew of money from
secret donors, corporations and special interests. If Congress
does not act to clean up our election finance system, 2012 will
be known as the year of the Super PAC, and voters will be deprived
of the information they need to make informed decisions in this
election.
Tell your Senators to put voters back in control.
Congress can act to close the floodgates against secret big-money
special interests in our elections. The DISCLOSE Act of 2012 is moving
in the Senate and it would require full transparency and let the
sunlight in. The DISCLOSE Act is the key that will allow voters to
make their own decisions and shine the light on big-money outside
spending in this election.
Tell Congress to shine the light on big money.
The DISCLOSE 2012 Act is carefully crafted to require disclosure
by outside groups of large campaign contributions and expenditures – those
over $10,000 – and includes valuable “stand-by-your
ad” provisions for ads run by such groups. It requires outside
groups to certify that their spending is not coordinated with candidates
and, very importantly, covers transfers of money among groups so
that the actual sources of funds being spent to influence federal
elections will be known. Most importantly, it would give voters
the information they need to judge for themselves about the advertising
and the candidates.
Send a message to your Senators. Tell them to put voters first.
Information & Resources
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