The Abington-Cheltenham-Jenkintown Area

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2023 Board Member's Lunch

Board Member's Lunch

Board Member's Lunch

Upper Dublin Legislative Meet & Greet

Upper Dublin Legislative Meet & Greet

Upper Dublin Legislative Meet & Greet

Keswick Registration Drive

Keswick Registration Drive

Keswick Registration Drive

College Registration Drive

College Registration Drive

College Registration Drive

National Voter Registration Day event at Arcadia University 9/20/2022

National Voter Registration Day event at Arcadia University 9/20/2022

National Voter Registration Day event at Arcadia University 9/20/2022.  We partnered with the university's Civic and Global Engagement Program.  A nice event!  Photo credit Alison LaLond Wyant.

 

Voter registration

Voter Registration at Manor College Aug 26, 2022

Voter Registration at Manor College, Aug, 2022

The Abington-Cheltenham-Jenkintown Area

The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government. Over the last century, we have fought for election protection, democratic reforms, and equal access to the ballot all while maintaining our commitment to nonpartisanship and fostering an informed electorate.  

 Our mission is to empower voters and strengthen democracy.  We salute the voters, poll workers, ballot counters and other election officials who persevered throughout this election cycle, in the face of a pandemic and the variety of electoral processes spawned, in large part, in response to the challenges it presented.  Their efforts both echo and reaffirm the work of previous generations who have struggled to preserve the democracy for which so many. 

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Event Date: 
Apr 23 2024 07:00 am to 08:00 pm
Event location: 

Your Local Polling Place

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!

Click here for the LWVACJ Voter's Guide

2024 Annual Meeting
Event Date: 
May 04 2024 12:00 pm to 04:00 pm
Event location: 

Spring House Tavern

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Your voice can make a difference. Join CeasefirePA in Harrisburg on May 7th to demand that our lawmakers take action to End Gun Violence. You’ll meet with legislative offices and attend a mid-day rally on the front steps of the Capitol with elected leaders, survivors, youth, faith leaders, medical professionals, and other advocates to demand policies that would make Pennsylvania safer.

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Social Policy on our Radar--Censorship in PA Schools

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Governor Shapiro Implements Automatic Voter Registration in Pennsylvania, Joining Bipartisan Group of States That Have Taken Commonsense Step to Make Voter Registration More Streamlined and Secure

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HELP STAFF YOUR LOCAL POLLING PLACE

Our democracy depends on ordinary people who make sure every election runs smoothly and everyone's vote is counted—people like you.

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This story originally aired on WKBN.

In this week’s segment with WKBN Community Affairs Director Dee Crawford, Crawford sits down with Leah Sakacs, president of the League of Women Voters of Greater Youngstown. 

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This letter to the editor was originally published in InForum.

Barbara Headrick, Fowzia Adde and Nicole Donaghy urge legislators to kill a bill that "would require naturalized US citizens who have not updated their ID since naturalization to prove their citizenship in order to vote. This bill targets New American voters who have been recently naturalized."

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It’s been a busy few weeks in the PA House, with more focus on legislative rules than we would have thought possible. The outcome is not perfect, but it is an encouraging step toward a more responsive legislative process.

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Pennsylvania has a new congressional map!  

Statement From The League Of Women Voters On Approved Legislative Maps
February 4, 2022