Read the article in the Cache Valley Daily regarding the revived Cache Valley League of Women Voters. Link to article.
The League of Women Voters of Utah welcomes the Cache Valley League-at-Large (LAL). The Cache Valley LAL will carry out the mission of empowering voters and defending democracy in the Cache community with a small but committed group of members. As the membership grows the LAL can seek to become a full league. In the meantime the League of Women Voters of Utah takes on the administrative functions, allowing Cache LAL to focus on registering voters, getting out the vote, educating voters, having forums for your community, and growing their membership.
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MARCH 26 GENERAL MEETING
Update on the 2024 Utah Legislative Session
March 26, 7 pm
Karina Brown, Policy Analyst for Cache County
First Presbyterian Church
178 W Center Street, Logan
Jess Bradfield, Cache County Clerk/Auditor
MEETING NOTES
MARCH 2023
Link to a recording of General Meeting with Jaimi Butler, founding coordinator of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College, children's book author, and co-editor of a book on the biology of the Great Salt Lake presentation 'We are in a Great (Salt Lake) Pickle'
OCTOBER
Link to a recording of Candidate Forum held October 5 with candidates Patrick Belnap, Dan Johnson, and David Zook. In place of a meeting for November, we will be encouraging people to vote.
AUGUST
Link to a recording of our August meeting, where the Cache Open Space Initiative and the RAPZ tax were discussed.
JUNE
Link to meeting on complaint filed on behalf of League of Women Voters of Utah, Mormon Women for Ethical Government and individual voters challenging Utah’s new partisan gerrymandered congressional map and the Utah Legislature’s repeal of a 2018 anti-gerrymandering citizen initiative law.
MAY
Link to video of The Great Salt Lake: Going, Going, Gone by Dr. Wayne Wurtsbaugh, Watershed Sciences Department, USU (May 4)
APRIL
Securing the Future of the Logan River by Dr. Frank Howe (April 6)
MARCH
The March meeting of the Cache Valley League featured Jess Lucero, USU Professor of Social Work discussing poverty in Cache Valley and Chantel Griffin, who helps run a local nonprofit.
You can watch the video of this March 9 event here. Read the minutes here.
You can watch the March 16 video of Dr. Patrick Belmont on Connecting Our Values, Science, and Technology to Solve Climate Change here.
FEBRUARY
Watch the February 2, 2022 General Meeting
DECEMBER
The Cache Valley LVW conducted a ranked choice poll to determine the top issues for the group. Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) was the top issue selected. As such, the December meeting was devoted to learning more about this topic. Other top choices included district voting vs. at large voting, as well as water and growth issues in Cache Valley. These topics will be addressed in coming meetings.
At the December meeting, Taylor Morgan from the nonprofit organization Utah Ranked Choicer Voting spoke to the group about a pilot program on RCV implemented across Utah. Overall, a majority of participants in the study found RCV easy to use, and they liked the process. One benefit of RCV is that it eliminates the need for primaries.
Jess Bradfield, the Cache County Clerk/Auditor, presented a contrasting point of view on RCV. He acknowledged some benefits of RCV such as its lower cost, and its clear threshold for the winner. Nonetheless, he noted that in his experience, it was a confusing process for the elderly; overcounting is a problem; results take longer to release; and spot audits are difficult to complete. He suggested the use of approval voting which allows voters to select all the candidates they like as an alternative to both RVC and traditional voting methods. Taylor noted that he has no objections to approval voting, but that the Utah Legislature has endorsed and commended the pilot program for RCV, but has voted against supporting a pilot program for approval voting.
NOVEMBER
The Cache Valley League-at-Large held their second organizational meeting on November 3, 2021. Highlights included:
-Presentations on League history, structure, and the range of activities League members participate in
-Summary of the work done by the Utah Independent Redistricting Commission
-Discussion of local issues of interest
The next meeting is planned for Wednesday, December 1.
