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LWVHC UPDATES
The Official Newsletter of LWVHC
July 10, 2022
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"Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life."
Carrie Chapman Catt, LWV Founder
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Voter Services will offer a workshop on
registering voters on July 18 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm on Zoom.
If you are interested in learning how to register voters or if you have not done it in a while and would like a review, please sign up HERE VOTER REGISTRATION WORKSHOP. Materials and the Zoom link will be sent to you a few days before the workshop.
We have a big election season coming up in November. Be part of the work to empower voters and defend democracy. Spread the word about the workshop and sign up yourself!
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Please contact your representatives in the NC House and NC Senate to ask them to support the Safeguarding Fair Elections Act. Let them know – protecting free and fair elections in our state is of utmost importance!
This bill would make it a crime to intimidate, threaten or engage in violence against election officials, and it would help protect voters from coercion before or on Election Day. It would also hold state officials accountable to ensure they respect the will of the people.
“For over 102 years, the League of Women Voters has fought for the vote. All people should be able to vote in our elections – free from attempts to intimidate voters when registering to vote or accessing their ballot, free from efforts to intimidate election officials when they administer the election or when they determine the results.
Voting is the cornerstone of a democratic system of government. Citizen participation in elections by voting ensures the legitimacy of a democratic government and protects our way of life and our communities. Those who work to intimidate voters or election officials seek to attack and destroy our democracy.
It is time to acknowledge that this threat exists in North Carolina. We have seen it. We need to act now to protect free and fair elections. The League of Women Voters asks all legislators to support SB 916, Safeguarding Fair Elections. The provisions contained in this bill will reinforce the commitment of North Carolina to the protection of democracy and to encourage all citizens to vote.”
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YOU Can Help Students Learn How Democracy Works
Students Voting For Democracy (SVFD) is looking for a Co-Chair and volunteers to help maintain, implement, and update our award-winning Civics Mini-Program.
Created by the League of Women Voters of Henderson County, the Students Voting For Democracy (SVFD) civics program has been maintained and produced during every presidential and midterm election cycle since 2014 with the League's partner and host, the Henderson County Public Schools.
Children who learn the importance of practicing voting and becoming comfortable with voting in school are more likely continue to exercise their right and responsibility to vote as adults.
If you are interested in helping with this project, please contact Bettie Liebzeit, SVFD Co-Chair. Find more detailed information about SVFD HERE.
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LWVHC President Brenda Sherrer joined over 600 virtual participants in the 2022 LWVUS Convention.
We are pleased that North Carolina will have one of our own, Dianna Wynn, LWV Wake, on the LWVUS Board of Directors.
Some highlights of the motions that passed at the meeting include:
- Equal Rights Amendment added to the LWVUS Program so that resources and focus be used to accomplish its passage.
- LWVUS actively advocate and support Immigration Reform at all levels.
- Urge state and local governments to adopt and publicize Declarations of Climate Emergency appropriate to local conditions.
- Adopt the proposed LWVUS Program for 2022-2024 Campaign for Making Democracy Work, focusing on Voting Rights, Improving Elections, Campaign Finance/Money in Politics and Redistricting. This included an amendment to add the direct election of the (U.S.) President by popular vote as a prominent, listed component of Making Democracy Work via both/either National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and the Abolishment of the electoral college by Constitutional amendment.
- Adopt a concurrence with the LWV New York's Health Care Update and the LWV California's Criminal Justice Position.
- Adopt the Per Member Payment (PMP) rate of $32 for each fiscal year of the 2022-2024 biennium.
- Support the rights of women and those who can become pregnant to self-determination related to and including, but not limited to, bodily autonomy, privacy, reproductive health, and lifestyle choice.
You can read a more complete summary of the meeting HERE.
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More opportunities to Learn and Engage
From Braver Angels:
Table Talks this summer. Table Talks on climate and energy promote conversations based on non-partisan facts to empower people to have civic discussions with confidence.
 Sign up for The Table Talks Project
July 19 at 12 p.m. ET
Do guns keep people safe? The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution gives us the right to carry guns outside the home. Do you agree? Join our debate.
Sign up for National Debate: Guns
July 21st at 8 p.m. ET.
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