A few years ago I decided that I could accept the results of elections if more eligible people were voting. After I held my own, largely unsuccessful, registration drive, I was told about the League of Women Voters. When I contacted them, I was amazed at the wealth of advice and material they were able to give me.
As using their materials, I decided to volunteer with them and remember my satisfaction at my first event at CCAC register. A student said that he was going to make his mother very happy since she had been bugging him to register and vote.
Then I began a member and have been volunteering ever since. The members I have worked with have been very generous with their time. They have wonderful ideas on how to reach out to seniors, students, the food insecure, the recently incarcerated, new citizens. library patrons, farmers' markets and more.
For years I have been writing letters to my PA state legislators, asking them to support bills that relate to elections, climate, fracking, public education financing and air and water pollution . Most of the time, my representatives seem to support my goals. But nothing ever happens. The League of Women Voters is the only organization that has researched the reasons why nothing happens. It is because our legislature is governed by rules that every legislator must sign at the beginning of a new session that (1) give full legislative power to the majority leadership in each house and to the majority leaders of all committees. If any one of these leaders doesn't want to advance a bill, nothing happens and the minority party can do nothing about it. The League studies issues, identifies what is needed to fix a problem and works for legislative action in a non-partisan way. That is why I support the League of Women Voters of Greater Pittsburgh