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LWV of Georgia
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Decatur, Georgia 30031 
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How Does The League Select Issues for Emphasis?

In League, Program means the issues that we choose for concerted study, education and action at local, state and national levels. Program can include both education and action.

The Program Planning process is part of what makes the League a grassroots organization; each League member has the opportunity to influence the selection of issues where the local, state, and national League will focus time, talent and money.

Every two years, members of local Leagues engage in Program Planning. Based on the results of this, the Board of Directors makes recommendations to the biennial convention delegates about the program to be adopted for the coming two year period.
 

Why this is our top legislative priority:

 

The next U. S. census will take place in 2020. The information gathered will be used by the Georgia legislature to adjust Georgia State and Federal legislative districts. Over the next two years, LWVGA will work to pass legislation that will ensure the fairness of that redistricting process and minimize the chance that legislators will gerrymander Georgia districts.


The League of Women Voters of Georgia supports:

 

  • A state redistricting process and standards that promote fair and effective representation in the Georgia General Assembly and the U. S. Congress with maximum opportunity for public scrutiny.

  • An independent commission as the preferred redistricting body. The membership of the redistricting commission should be multi-partisan, include unaffiliated voters, be geographically representative and not include any current state elected official.

  • Standards that require districts to be substantially equal in population, geographically contiguous, and drawn without regard to the existing partisan voting patterns.

 



Graph above by Stephen Nass