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Some of our members are active and busy with League activities throughout the year – registering voters, supporting League positions, keeping our community informed and more. Some of our members join to support our mission. Please review our essential League documents to learn more.
LWV Illinois
Where We Stand: LWVIL Positions
Where We Stand is the platform of the League of Women Voters of Illinois. In concert with the LWVUS guide to public policy positions, Impact on Issues, it forms the basis for all action taken by the Illinois Leagues on state and national issues and the League Principles.
Where We Stand 2023-2025 covers the LWVIL state positions and the action issues adopted at the 2019 Convention, which are designed to help local Leagues use the state program effectively. The material is organized into four topic sections: Representative Government, Natural Resources, and Social Policy
LWV Naperville
Current LWV Naperville Program
League program is the education and advocacy platform that we adopt to move our mission forward. League Principles and positions on public policy issues are included in the LWVUS Bylaws. The current LWV Naperville League Platform includes:
- Organize and implement responses to issues on local, state, and national levels through local actions as appropriate. Responses include, but are not limited to:
- Letters to the editor
- Speaking to city council
- Witness slips
- Rallies
- Lobby Day, lobbying legislators
- Defend democracy drop-ins
- Advocate for issues that are important to Naperville, DuPage County, and Will County
- Educate and encourage the public to engage in the actions of city government
- Organize and implement responses to local city and county developments as appropriate – alone or in partnership with other non-partisan organizations
- Advocate for Naperville Energy Concerns and other environmental issues
- Educate voters about the source of their electricity
- Support greater transparency and accountability from IMEA (Illinois Municipal Electric Agency) and IMUA (Illinois Municipal Utility Agency)
- Support good governance and transparency from the city on energy concerns
- Monitor city and state legislation as it affects Naperville
- Monitor other environmental concerns as needed
- Support election integrity and ballot access in Will and DuPage Counties
- Continue to monitor and shed light on the election processes of DuPage County and Will County to support free and fair elections
- Continue to observe elections and ballot processing, e.g., poll watching
- Engage in studies that affect Naperville
- Ranked Choice Voting
- Gun Violence Prevention
- Federal Judiciary
- Organize and implement responses to issues on local, state, and national levels through local actions as appropriate. Responses include, but are not limited to:
LWV United States
LWVUS priorities for 2024-2026:
- Voting Rights: Expanding voter access to the polls
- Improving Election Systems: Fighting voter suppression
- Campaign Finance/Money in Politics: Promoting transparency/eliminating dark money
- Redistricting: Fighting racial and partisan gerrymandering
- Direct Election of the President by Popular Vote
- Climate Change: Pushing harder for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
LWVUS Impact on Issues
Impact on Issues is designed to help League members use LWVUS public policy positions effectively at the national, state, local, and regional levels. The intention is to inspire Leagues to use national positions to act in their own communities.