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2008 Primary Election Podcasts

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Congratulations 2008 Essay Contest Winners

The League of Women Voters of Lackawanna County held its 6th Annual Women's History Month Essay Contest Winner's reception.

The contest's essay topic, "Women Make History," incorporates both creative women from U.S. history and innovative women of today.

The following 6 winners were selected from among over 250 entries:

• Seventh-Nine Grade: 1st Patrick O'Malley, Northeast Intermediate School, for essay on Rachel Carson; 2nd Kelsey Gleason, Abington Heights Middle School, for essay on Rosa Parks, and 3rd Kaitlin Fletcher, Abington Heights Middle School, for essay on Elizabeth Blackwell.
• Tenth-Twelfth Grade: 1st Colleen Loughney, Dunmore High School, essay on Susan B. Anthony; 2nd Kali Gargone, Scranton High School, for essay on Margaret Sanger; and 3rd Frank Montaro, Dunmore High School, essay on Eleanor Roosevelt.

The event was co-sponsored by The Jane Kopas Women's Center, The University of Scranton, Scranton Today TV61, and the Northeast Intermediate Institute.

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The event was taped for airing on Scranton Today, TV61 - starting around 4/3/2008. Dvd's or tapes can be obtained from Scranton Today by leaving a message at 207-0765 and your call will be returned as soon as possible

Reminder to Candidates

The LWV-LC sponsors nonpartisan candidate events: interviews, debates, and forums. If you are a candidate, check out the events we have planned (events), our event policy, and notify us (events @ lwvlackawanna.org) of your candidacy.

Call for questions

Have a topic or question you would like us to consider for our candidate events? Then please email to info @ lwvlackawanna.org.

The League will review all questions received, and craft appropriate ones for the scheduled debates and/or interviews.

Lackawanna County selects paper ballots... and needs your help!

Lackawanna County Commissioners selected an optical-scan voting system that uses paper ballots from Election Systems & Software. Based on our analysis, Lackawanna County made the RIGHT choice.

We believe fairness and accuracy are the most important criteria. This is where electronic devices can fail or can be perceived to fail. You can recount paper ballots, you can not recount bytes in the computer.

The key, no matter what the voting system, is the process and people. This requires full and well trained staffing at the polling places.

The Lackawanna County Board of Elections is seeking individuals to fill poll-worker vacancies in various voting districts for the April 22 primary election. The judge of elections is paid $145; other election officers receive $105. To apply or for more information, contact the Voter Registration Office at 963-6737.

Please see more information from county, including a video demostration of the new procedure... Click here to go to County Voting information.

Read more about how we arrived at this recommendation for a paper ballot system ... (Click for More...)

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Campaign School - You missed it, but tapes ARE NOW be available!

You missed the nonpartisan seminar for potential candidates and their supporters. The League of Women Voters of Monroe County was co-sponsored by League of Women Voters of Lackawanna, and Susquehanna County.

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A video tape or DVD of the event, and campaign school handouts ARE NOW be available for purchase

Click here for how to order...

Latest LWVLC meeting Minutes

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