We did it! Thanks to the hard work of the Election Administration Study Committee, and the members who showed up to the consensus meetings, as well as the success of our special meeting last Saturday, we have adopted 12 new positions to support our election administration processes.
Thank you all.
We are not done. We will submit our new positions, with the supporting study materials, to the State League for consideration.
Way to go LWVKC.

Jim Calvert
Editor.

Our Waldo training session is full, so please don’t drop in hoping to get a spot. Instead, come to the newly-added session.
When: March 6, 2024 2:00 p.m.
Where: Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St
Register here!

“Sunshine Amid the Storms,” will feature Dan Margolies, recently retired journalist with KCUR-FM, in conversation with First Amendment lawyers Bernie Rhodes of The Lathrop Group and Jean Maneke of The Maneke Group, as well as a representative from the Missouri Attorney General's office.
The panel will begin with a brief explanation of Sunshine Laws, written in 1973, that generally provide for public access to government meetings, documents, and decisions.

When: March 11, 2024 6:30 p.m.
Where: Shook, Hardy, and Bacon Law Office, 2555 Grand Blvd
FREE Registration Required (In-person/Zoom) here!

The Forums Committee is busy planning seven Zoom candidate forums for the April 2 Municipal Election. Our two recent Independence City Council Candidate forums made front page news in the January 31 Examiner newspaper here!
Though only 45 people were live viewers of the two forums, there were 329 views of the recorded forums on our @LWVKC YouTube channel. The Forums Admin Team are confident that our decision to move all our candidate forums to Zoom benefits voters who may view our forum recordings at their convenience.
Upcoming LWVKC Forums - please submit questions here!
Tue, Mar 05, 24 Liberty School Board
Wed, Mar 13, 24 Hickman Mills School Board - co-sponsor SKCA
Thu, Mar 14, 24 Center School Board - co-sponsor SKCA
Tue, Mar 19, 24 Independence School Board
Wed, Mar 20, 24 NKC School Board
Thu, Mar 21, 24 Lee's Summit School Board
Tue, Mar 26, 24 Independence City Council
To see local forums by LWVKC, as well as other organizations, visit the Consolidated Candidate and Issues Calendar here!
If you see a local forum sponsored by an outside organization, please help us keep the calendar updated by sending the information here!
Please help our forums, and community forums, by sharing lwvkc.org/ccic online through social media, and support our efforts by attending our candidate forums.

“In 2020, the nation commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment granting U.S women the right to vote. That same year, the Greater Kansas City Black Suffragist Committee (GKCBS) formed with the mission to "enshrine the lives of those who dedicated themselves to a just cause, to illuminate the dynamic history of local suffrage and the fight for women’s rights, and to inspire our community to continue to protect the right of all people to vote."
Carmaletta Williams, CEO of the Black Archives of Mid-America, discusses the research of GKCBS, the long history of Black women’s activism, and the intersection with the struggles for abolition, suffrage, economic freedom, and civil rights. She further details the contributions of Black Kansas Citians such as Ida Bowman Becks, Minnie Crosthwaite, Josephine Yates, and others who took up the struggle locally for suffrage and civil rights.
The program is co-presented by the Kansas City Athenaeum in honor of Women’s History Month” (kclibrary.org).
When: March 24, 2024 2:00 p.m.
Where: Kansas City Public LIbrary, Central Branch Helzberg Aud. 5th Floor
14 W 10th St
Details and RSVP here!

The Observer Corps serves on the primary functions of the League, to hold elected officials accountable. These hardworking volunteers attend meetings of our government bodies across the Metro and report their findings quarterly.
The Fourth Quarter 2023 Report may be found here!

Margaret Atwood’s vision of our dystopian future now seems remarkably prescient as state legislatures, including Missouri’s, continue to pass onerous bills designed to restrict the civil liberties of people who don’t conform to the Christian ideals of those in power. These attacks include LGBTQ+ and DEI issues, along with assaults on our public school curriculum and library holdings.
And let’s be clear, legislation that denies liberties hurts all Americans because we all suffer when any one of us suffers.
Read the entire essay here!
But we can’t do it without you.
You may support League efforts in many ways - through your financial giving, by sharing our efforts and election information on social media, by volunteering in-person at an event or by working at home behind the scenes. We have volunteer needs that fit all schedules.
So…sign into your League account here!
Then, sign up to volunteer for one of the many opportunities available here!
And don’t forget we got here through hard work on our committees, which are always needing members to join here!
Jim Calvert
Editor

Planet Comicon is a golden opportunity for us to engage voters - especially young voters - on voting and defending the ballot initiative process. We created "Missouri Voters Have a Superpower" to reach out to the visually oriented voter - like the Planet Comicon attendees!
We need members who have attended DEI training to volunteer here!
Remember, you must be signed in to volunteer.

The American Red Cross may be found here!