Activities Fair and Advocacy Membership Meeting

Wishing you could do something to Empower Voters and Defend Democracy?

Jan. 31, 10AM-2:30PM @Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs Street, Rochester.

The main entrance is on Meigs Street, and the main parking lot is across the street. There are steps. The handicapped accessible interest is in the back of the building, as is handicapped parking.

Schedule:

10-12, Activities Fair:

Members of our different committees will be here to speak with members and visitors about what we're up to and recruit new volunteers. Lots of new work is going on! Bring a friend! Learn more about:

• Voter Services (voter registration and Get Out the Vote work)

• New Americans Outreach

• Criminal Justice Reform

• Student Outreach

• Vote411

• Naturalization

• State Legislative Advocacy

• Communications 

• DEI+Justice

• Nominating Committee/League leadership development

• Forums

• Membership

• Civic Education Media team

12:00 Lunch(Please register, to allow us to plan food:https://members.lwv-rma.org/members/evr/reg_event.php?evid=61008029&orgcode=LWVR

12:30-2:30  Should we work for Ranked Choice Voting and eliminate party primaries in Rochester?

As we do each winter, we will have a member meeting to make decisions about advocacy. We will be discussing and deciding whether our League should sponsor an effort to amend the Rochester city council charter to implement the use of Ranked Choice Voting for city elections and eliminate party primaries in the election of city offices.

Please come and engage in the discussion so that we make a good decision. Only members of the League will be able to vote on this decision. You can join at the meeting. The minimum membership cost is $20.

Background material to review before you come:

• Watch Majority Rules 101 on YouTube. It's a free 34 minute cut of the longer documentary.

• Watch Majority Rules, a 90 minute documentary about the Alaska elections in 2022 where Final Five elections probably changed outcomes in ways that affected the whole country. It's 92 minutes. It's available to stream for a small fee on Apple+ and Amazon prime. We showed it last year at the Henrietta Public Library.

• Read the report we commissioned from the Center for Government Research, Open Primary/Final Five Voting in NYS Assessing Impacts on State and Local Elections 

• Watch the recording of our Jan. 20 zoom session on RCV/all-voter elections