Friday, November 22, 2013

LWVRI Legislative Priorities for 2014

• Restoring the jurisdiction of the Ethics Committee over the legislature (partners: Common Cause, ACCESS RI)
• Improving voting procedures and policies (early voting, improved voting machines, eliminating master lever, voter id., etc. ) partner: Common Cause
• Supporting women’s health and reproductive rights.  Partner: RI Coalition for Reproductive Justice
• Promoting  gun safety
• Passing merit selection for magistrates so they are chosen like judges.  Partner: Common Cause
• Counting addresses of prisoners as where they lived when arrested to prevent skewing of populations in redistricting.  Partner: Common Cause
• Reforming redistricting commission makeup.   Partner: Common Cause
• Promoting public education funding that provides equality of opportunity through a system of taxation that is sufficient, equitable, flexible, equitable and coordinated among the different levels of government.

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