• Power Point Presentation
• Background Paper
• The War on Voting in the Modern Era (2/16/2012)
  Presentation by Tim O’Brien, LWVUS Project Manager for the Public Advocacy for Voter Protection, recently spoke about current efforts to suppress the vote in several states.

Groups Say a Single Combined Primary for Congressional and State Legislative Races is Best for New York Voters in 2012 (3/7/2012)

• Press Release                Video of Press Conference
• Erie County Legislature Resolution
• NYS Association of Counties Survey of Costs for Additional Primary

LWV and NYPIRG Urge Legislators to Align State and Federal Primary Dates (2/12/12)

2012 NYS Legislative Calendar (1/27/2012)

• League Joins Over 100 Organizations in Letter to Governor Regarding Campaign Finance Reform (2/3/2012)
  • Letter
  • Press Release
• Analysis by NYPIRG of Largest Campaign Donors in Past Year (2/3/2012)

• LWVNY Testimony for 2012-2013 Health-Medicaid Budget Hearing (2/15/2012)
• Memo in Support S2917 (1/30/2012)
  Restricting Tanning bed use by persons under 18
• LWVNYS, with American Cancer Society and Others, Present Study on Tobacco Funds (9/19/2011)
  New report finds only four cents of every dollar New York raises from tobacco helps smokers quit or keeps kids from smoking.
  • Press Release
  • Full Report

• Memo in Support S6261 Moratorium on New Permits for Drilling Wells (2/27/2012)
• League Comments on dSGEIS Statement (1/11/2012)
• League Comments on Proposed Hydrofracking Regulations (1/11/2012)
• LWV of St. Lawrence Comments on dSGEIS Statement (1/11/2012)
• LWVs of PA, NJ and PA Comments on dSGEIS Statement (1/6/2012)
• Testimony on Behalf of 4 State LWVS before Delaware River Basin Commission on Hydrofracking (12/8/2011)
• Highlights from Delaware River Basin Commission Meeting (12/8/2011)
• Gas Leases Conflict with Home Mortgages, Tompkins Weekly (11/14/2011)
• Homeowners and Gas Drilling Leases: Boon or Bust, NYS Bar Association Journal(Nov/Dec 2011). Article written by Elisabeth Radow, LWVNYS Chair, Hydraulic Fracturing Lobby Committee
• Comments from NYC Council Committee on Environmental Protection Regarding Hydrofracking (9/22/2011)
• New York Times Letter to the Editor by LWVNYS President Betsey Swan on Hydrofracking Regulations Review Process (9/18/2011)
• Letter to the Susquehanna River Basin Commission on Proposed Rulemaking (8/23/2011)
• Letter from LWVs of DE, NY, NJ and PA to US EPA Urging Restoration of Clean Water Act (7/28/2011)
• Statement to Delaware River Basin Commission on Proposed Natural Gas Regulations (7/28/2011)
• Letter to NYS DEC re: Comment Period (7/18/2011) 

• NEW! Citizens Union and League Statement (3/8/2012)
  Citizens Union and the League of Women Voters of New York State today jointly announced their continued support for achieving permanent structural reform and ending once and for all New York's partisan redistricting process.  
• NEW! Update on Redistricting Efforts (2/27/2012)
• League Testifies at LATFOR Hearing in Albany (1/30/2012)
• League Disappointed with LATFOR Process (1/27/2012)
• LATFOR Releases New Senate and Assembly District Lines (1/26/2012)
  See all of the proposed maps at the LATFOR website.
• Compare your own old and new Senate and Assembly districts by entering your address using this website.
• ReShapeNY Calls for Impartial Redistricting Process Before 2012 Maps are Finalized (1/11/2012)
  League continues to push for redistricting reform with its coalition members in ReShapeNY.
  
• The State League continues to support the need for an independent redistricting  commission with specific defined criteria for redrawing the legislative lines in New York State. The State and many local League have continued to take action on this issue in the past few months. Testimony has been presented at most of the LATFOR hearings and letters to the editor and articles in local media have been numerous. Look at the full Redistricting page for information on our position and action taken. Click here.

• Tax Caps in NYS: Meaningful Relief or Snare and Delusion (11/14/2011)
  Presentation by Betsey Swan, LWVNYS President, New Paltz
  
• Tax Cap Opponents Shift Tactics, Times Union (11/14/2011)

• Coalition in Support of transit on the Tappan Zee Bridge launches new website (1/19/2012)
  Over twenty five elected officials, environmental, labor, social justice, and transportation organizations have voiced their support for transit to be built from the start of the new Tappan Zee Bridge project. Please send the Governor a letter urging him to support transit on the Tappan Zee.
• Groups Call on State to Restore Transit in Tappan Zee Bridge Plans (12/15/2011)
  League joins groups asking state to include bus rapid transit in plans for rebuilding Tappan Zee Bridge.
• League and Other Organizations Write to Governor Cuomo with Concerns Regarding Proposal to Replace Tappan Zee Bridge (10/24/2011)
  
  

• Testimony on Governor’s Budget on Elementary and Secondary Education Finance (1/23/2012)
• LWVNYS Urges June Primary Date (12/31/2011)
• Testimony Before Assembly Committees on Pay Equity (12/12/2011)
• Testimony before the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Election Law Concerning the Administration of Elections in Compliance with HAVA (12/1/2011)
  • Testimony by LWVNYS
  • Testimony by LWVNYC and LWVNYS
  • Packet on Submission of HAVA Operations Expenses by Board of Elections Program (BOE Document)
    Information for board of elections to obtain federal money through NYS BOE for compliance with and implementation of HAVA