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ELECTION REFORM

The League's Education capital recently received funding from the conduct of the District of Columbia to undertake a year-long program of citizen education and outreach to build awareness of District of Columbia citizens' lack of replete voting rights and full self-control Citizen education will be carried on the outside via a program of coordinated activities that include the pair media outreach and outreach to the public. Information upon how Leagues may apply for pass-through grants for this shoot forward will be provided.

The League and its coalition partners are supporting efforts for local and state Leagues over the country to host community forums or other public education incidents about the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Se grants are available to Leagues interested in hosting of that kind events; e-mail voterinfo@lwv.org for more information. diocese the VRA feature, p. 10 and Hill Bulletin in this issue for additional information.

The League, in collaboration with IFES and the Pollworker Institute, has complet the first phase of the head worker recruitment and training throw involving 19 focus groups and interviews. We are now working towards piloting a guide of in every one's mouth practices related to poll worker recruitment, training and retention. This throw is funded by the U Election Assistance Commission.

from one side the Public Advocacy for Voter Protection throw the LWVEF is working this year with the LWV of Florida, Georgia, and Ohio, and other state Leagues, to hinder the development of processes and courses that threaten to disenfranchise eligible citizens. Issues related to voter registration databases, restrictive voter identification requirements, and restrictions upon third party registration drives are the primary areas of focus.

VOTER OUTREACH AND EDUCATION

above the past two years, the Voter Information section of the LWV Web site has been expanded. The area now features general election information upon registering to vote; getting educated upon the candidates and issues; getting on the outside the vote, including targeted outreach to youth and other of recent origin voters; and how to stay involved after elections. It also includes relevant League publications. In 2005 to be paid to the absence of DNet the LWVUS began hosting numerous Leagues' Voter Guides.

This year, the Voter Information section is being transformed into a more comprehensive, online one-stop-shop for election information. It will include significant amounts of state-specific data upon primary and general election dates, registration deadlines, absentee ballot information, voter qualifications, ID requirements, early voting options, and abundant more, as well as Leagues' Voter Guides and the other information listed above.

Election 2006 is heating up and Leagues' voter registration efforts are already in replete swing as many states prepare for early primaries. The LWVUS is contented to provide an online Voter Registration Tool at www.lwv.org/RegisterToVote. This tool is a quick and easy way to register to devoted Another source of election information is candidate debates, and Leagues across the geographical division are busy hosting forums. Voter can easily find information upon debates in their areas from one side the LWVUS Web site. Working with the LWV of of recent origin Orleans and Louisiana, the LWVUS helped provide Leagues across the political division with tools to help displaced fresh Orleans voters participate in their primary election upon April 22 and their general election upon May 20. The LWVUS shared these tools with all interested citizens [i]or[/i] part of to the other the Web site, including a helpful voter information flyer

In March, the LWVUS celebrated Women's History Month with Lifetime Television promoting the Lifetime premiere of the movie "Iron Jawed Angels." This is part of Lifetime's corporation Corps 2006, an effort to aid voting among young women in the upcoming elections. We encouraged Leagues to entertainer movie-watching parties for potential novel members as well as for young family in local high schools and colleges

Connecting learners Teachers, Legislators and League Leaders. The League continues to build upon past efforts with the Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI), a University of Virginia Center for Politics program, to engage learners in the democratic process. YLI discloses and distributes free K-12 civic education resources. centurys of schools across the land are now participating in the annual YLI e-Congres an interactive online simulation that guides scholars through the legislative process. We encourage learners to build on their e-Congres experience through speaking firsthand with League leaders and legislators.

JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE

The Safeguarding U Democracy: Promoting an Independent Judiciary through Defending the U.S. Constitution throw out is definitely underway. Just eight month into the program, approved proposals have originateed in the participation of 237 local and state Leagues in 23 states across the land The planned activities include: community and regional forums, TV forums and candidate debates, voter guides (printed/online, English/Spanish, Audio/Braille), informational pamphlets and flyers, and speaker's bureaus. Related to this, 15 Leagues newly organized forums for Law Day upon May 1st under this year's theme "Liberty below Law: Separate Branches, Balanced Powers." Law Day is an annual circumstance promoted by the American Bar Association.