Most recent LWVTSC VOTER posted: Nov.-Dec. 2008

Link to Board Briefs: Sept. & Oct. 2008

2008 Observer Reports:
           Topeka City Council • Shawnee County Commission

2nd Congressional Candidate Debate:

    The League of Women Voters and public televison station KTWU, Channel 11, sponsored a candidate debate between Nancy Boyda and Lynn Jenkins, candidates running for US House of Representaives 2nd Congressional District, broadcast on Wednesday October 1, 2008.
    The program aired live from 8-9pm with a studio audience and a phone bank to take questions to the candidates. The questions from the audience and viewers were screened by a panel of League members, 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans, to make sure questions address issues relevant to the election. The program was re-aired on Tues., Oct, 28.

—Submitted by Maryanna Quilty, Publicity Chair, LWVTSC

UWVUS Study:
National Popular Vote Compact

As much as we like to believe that each vote counts in this country, in reality, the Electoral College has distorted our idealistic view of democratic elections. The current League position supports abolishment of the Electoral College which would require a constitutional amendment. Realizing the difficulty in passing a constitutional amendment, a movement has been underway in this country to achieve the national popular vote with a compact between states. Under the NPV Compact all of the electoral votes of each member state would go to the presidential candidate receiving the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This interstate compact would not go into effect until enough states have joined to guarantee the 270 electoral votes required to elect a president. Thus far, it has been adopted in four states: Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois and Hawaii. Legislation has passed one or more chambers in another 9 states.

Because of the busy election season this fall and to give Leagues a maximum amount of time to study the issue and take consensus, the deadline for submitting consensus forms will be May 1, 2009. The LWVTSC Board has determined there is enough interest to pursue this study. Watch for information in 2009.

—This information was taken from The National Voter, Oct. 2008

Oct. & Sept.— LWVTSC BOARD BRIEFS
By Mary Kopp, secretary.

October 14, 2008

    13 BODs were present for the Directors meeting. Tre-surer, Sybil Weigman report was approved and filed for audit.

President’s announcements
    The candidate forum in partner-ship with KTWU went well. Mary-anna Quilty was acknowledged for her work on the project as well as all the board members who helped by answering phones, screening questions or timing the responses.

Setting of annual meeting
    After much discussion regarding Saturday vs. Tuesday
annual meeting a motion was made to convene the LWVT/SC annual meeting on Tuesday Topic April 7, 2008.
    Topic for annual meeting is LWVT/SC local position is-sues

Budget Committee
    A budget task force was convened.
    The budget will be published in the Mar/Apr Kan-sas Voter, 30 days before the April general membership meeting.
    The budget committee will consist of BOD treasurer, 1 BOD member and two off BOD members.

Program planning committee
    Committee will select local topic issues for the Voice Meeting, Thursday Jan 15th.
    Topics of interest should be sent to Marg Ahrens prior to Jan

LWVUS Study on National Popular Vote
    National LWV/USA has embarked upon a one year study on the issue of National Popular Vote.
    The local study commit-tee members are Maryanna Quilty, Georgia Sandlin, and Gwen Elliott . Please contact them if you are interested in par-ticipating.

September 9, 2008

    12 BODs were present for the Directors meeting. Treasurer, Sybil Weigman report was approved and filed for audit.

President’s announcements:
    Mary Kopp has agreed to fill in as secretary until the end of this Board's term in April. Teresa Stambaugh will take notes when Mary cannot at-tend a Board meeting.
    President Sandlin discussed use of undesignated funds and convened a task force for further exploration.

Membership Event- Nancy Shaughnessy
    This year’s new mem-ber event will be held at Topeka Collegiate School on Evening Side Drive on Thurs-day, October 23rd. 4-6:30 p.m. The event will be a movie regarding the Suffra-gette Butterfly with Hillary Swank. A recent movie re-garding the Suffragette Move-ment. Reminder cards were mailed to membership. Bring a guest.

KTWU candidate forum
    Maryanne Quilty has arranged for the 2nd District representative political forum to be held at KTWU station on Washburn University cam pus at 8p.m.

Governor’s Issue Dinner
    Gwen Elliott and Brenda Guilfoyle have arranged for the Governor’s Issue Dinner on Wednesday, November 19th at 5:30- 8:30 p.m., McFarland’s Restaurant
    Reservations in advance, dinner is $16.00 (includes tax and

Voter Registration
    Kids Voting Kansas will be held as several locations on November 4th election day.
    Naturalization ceremony will be Friday, Septem-ber 12th at the Federal Court-house

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The Safe Streets Coalition in partnership with the Topeka Police Department, Shawnee County Sheriff's Office, Crime Stoppers, and Topeka area pawn shops are promoting a program to deter theft of property and to help return property to the owner if it's stolen. Law enforcement reports that only one percent of all items in the property room are marked. The League has three invisible identification markers for members to use and then pass on to other members. These pens were available at the June Tuesday Topics meeting with the information on how to use them. We plan to have this information available at future Tuesday Topics meetings.

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