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President Pat Gadbaw |
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Elections Updates Volusia County Elections Office |
Judicial Decision on Congressional Redistricting: In response to today's ruling by Tallahassee Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis, League of Women Voters of Florida First Vice-President Pamela Goodman stated: "This is exactly the scenario that the League of Women Voters of Florida and other organizations and individuals warned against last summer when scores of citizens urged the Legislature to accelerate the map drawing process. There was no legal restraint that would have prohibited the Legislature from drawing the congressional map last summer or fall, allowing time for a full judicial review. As the League said all along, delaying congressional redistricting represented an intentional ploy by the Legislature to buy two more years under unfairly gerrymandered maps." Read the full press release here.
Affordable Health Care Act:Read LWVF President Deidre McNab’s 4/11/12 letter to the Tampa Tribune on the Affordable Care Act at http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/learn-the-benefits-of-health-care-reform/1224355.
Want to know the final actions on legislative actions of special interest to League of Women Voters of Florida? See The Capitol Report March 16, 2012. For news of the Extraordinary Session on Redistricting, see The Capitol Report March 23, 2012.
The April-May 2012 issue of LWVVC's Voter is now available here.
Redistricting Update March 9, 2012: "This morning, the Florida Supreme Court gave real meaning to the new redistricting standards approved by voters and invalidated the Senate district plan passed by the Legislature." Click here for the entire press release.
Transportation Policy in the Volusia County area continues to be studied by the LWVVC. League member Ken Fischer recently provided the Board with a summary and update of the current status. The LWVVC Board considers this important for all members to see, and asked that it be added to our website. Click here for the full report.
Protect the Right to Vote: Elizabeth MacNamara, President of the LWVUS, just sent an open letter to all Leagues, urging support for League efforts to protect citizens' right to vote. See that letter here.
Health Care Reform Law (The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or PPACA): On January 14th, the LWVVC presented a program of "just the facts" about the new Health Care Reform Law. LWVVC Vice-President Claudia Roth (MSHC, RN) used information provided by the LWV of Florida, and that PowerPoint presentation is now available for your viewing as an easily accessible PDF file here. The file includes a 10-question quiz prepared by The Kaiser Family Foundation (http://www.kff.org) about the law, and only 1 percent of American voters were able to answer all questions correctly. Only 30 percent could get a C (70%) or better. The full oral presentation usually takes 45 minutes, including questions. If your group would like a presentation on the facts of the law, please call the LWVVC phone number (386-238-7361) and leave a message, or email your request to mail@lwvvc.org. Included in the oral presentation is a showing of this Kaiser Foundation short animated film on the law, "Health Reform Hits Main Street" which is now available here and on YouTube. The Foundation also provides a Spanish-language version.
Redistricting maps for Congressional and State Senate districts are now available. You can see the Senate's plans at for the state Senate and Congressional districts at www.flsenate.gov/redistricting. You can view the entire state, or you may select just the Northeast regional map, which includes Volusia County. Maps are in two formats: an interactive map and a Google overlay format. Information on the process is also included. You may follow redistricting progress on the Florida House of Representatives districts at the state website http://www.floridaredistricting.org/.
With the 2012 elections in sight, we recommend several websites which will be very helpful. These will be listed on our Elections Updates page (see link in left column), but here are a few highlights: The Education Fund of the League of Women Voters of Florida has created a very useful website for all Florida citizens called Be Ready to Vote.org The Education Fund also now provides a "Be Ready to Vote" smart tag for those of you who love your smartphones. Click here for more information on the Tag campaign. The Vote411 project continues to be a great resource for voters and potential voters with information on finding your polling place, how to register, etc.
The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a non-partisan organization to encourage the involvement of all citizens in government and the electoral process through education and advocacy. Please note that while the League of Women Voters may advocate for carefully studied issues, the League never supports or opposes candidates for office, or political parties, and any use of the League of Women Voters name in campaign advertising or literature has not been authorized by the League. In addition to using the links on the left, members of the public are invited to view the positions and issues studied by the LWVVC as listed on the right and below. We hope you will consider joining the League. Any citizen over 18, male or female, may become a voting member of the LWV. Associate membership is available to younger people and non-citizens. When you join the League of Women Voters of Volusia County, you automatically become a member of the Florida and U.S. Leagues. What can you do as a League member?
For a membership brochure and application,
click here. If you have difficulty printing this brochure,
click here to print out a
brief membership application. Mail your application with your check to the
LWVVC address listed. Or, you may contact the LWVVC by phone (386-238-7361) or
email mail@lwvvc.org to request a printed form.
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email: mail@lwvvc.org phone: 386-238-7361 LWVVC Post Office Box 9695 Daytona Beach, FL 32120 |
Last updated 5/01/12 |