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Published On 9/28/2024
The combined Leagues of Women Voters (LWV) of the Capital Region express our sincere thanks to Mona Golub and the Market 32-Price Chopper stores for once again making a successful National Voter Registration Day possible. All the store managers went out of their way to help our volunteers.
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Published On 9/10/2024
The last paragraph of the County Legislature's 9/9/24 Proclamation - Resolved: The Albany County Legislature recognizes September 17th, 2024, as “National Voter Registration Day” and Applauds the dedicated endeavors of the Albany County League of Women Voters in enhancing our county by boosting voter registration, advocating for the significance of voting, and actively involving the community to highlight the importance of voting.
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Published On 8/26/2024
Everyone in Albany County can now vote on a design for an “I Voted!” sticker, that will be used for stickers to hand out to voters at Albany County polling locations on Election Day 2024. To encourage young people to think about the importance of voting, the Albany County Legislature, the NAACP Albany Branch and the League of Women Voters of Albany invited all Albany County K-12 students to submit designs. A panel of judges selected 14 of those designs and the public can now vote on a favorite at tinyurl.com/Ivoted2024. Voting concludes August 31, 2024.
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Published On 7/15/2024
The LWV of Albany County was invited by the USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Services) to help new citizens register for voting at a naturalization ceremony at the Empire State Plaza on the 4th of July. The Honorable Richard Rivera administered the oath for 16 new citizens. Our volunteers included Janet Reilly, Maureen Bernstein, Marianne Purcell, Lacey Putnam, MaryKate Owens and Julie Elson. They also were delighted to meet a group of Girl Scouts from a Rensselaer County troop who led the new citizens in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Published On 7/15/2024
New York State's Public Campaign Finance Board has amended its rules to require that each contribution list submitted to receive matching funds be accompanied with a card listing the email address and telephone number of each contributor. This is in response to an Assembly candidate in Queens having received more than $150,000 in matching funds by reporting contributions that were from individuals who never, in fact, made any contributions. This is a small but significant reform to prevent fraud in the administration of the program.
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Published On 5/19/2024
Three very important court decisions were issued during the week of May 6. It should be noted that all are subject to an appeal to a higher court, so none is final. First, with regard to the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, a single judge of the Supreme Court of Livingston County issued a decision at the trial court level removing the proposed amendment from the November ballot. Judge Doyle looked at Section 1 of Article 9 of the constitution, which sets forth the procedure for the adoption of constitutional amendments. It requires the legislature to refer a proposed amendment to the Attorney General, who must within 20 days issue an opinion regarding its effect on other provisions of the constitution. The legislature may act on the proposal after the Attorney General submits her opinion or after 20 days have passed without receipt of an opinion.
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Published On 3/22/2024
A NYS Equal Rights Amendment may be on the November 2024 ballot. Currently, our NYS constitution only protects against racial and religious discrimination. The 2024 NYS ERA would prohibit discrimination by the government based on a person’s ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, and sex- including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes. It would also protect against any government actions that would curtail a person’s reproductive autonomy or their access to reproductive health care. If voters approve the constitutional amendment, the ERA gets added to our constitution and millions of New Yorkers gain new protections against discrimination.
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Published On 2/1/2024
I was out walking early one morning a few weeks ago and saw and heard the OGS garbage trucks coming down the road. Several men were collecting trash barrels and emptying them as the truck slowly passed by, and I looked up to see a woman driving the truck. I was exhilarated and excited - like a 3 year old - I waved to her and smiled. And she smiled back...
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