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.

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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.

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