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Current Issues, Positions, and Topics

Click here for our Statement on Violence in Israel and Gaza, from the LWVUS.

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The League of Women Voters acts on issues after member study and consensus. We have a three-step process:

Step 1: Study the issue. 
A committee is formed to study each issue. 

Step 2: Take a position.
Upon completion of a study, the findings will be presented to the League members who will vote to decide on the position the League will take and if any actions are needed.

Step 3: Take action.
Depending on the consensus reached, the League may take action based on the position taken. Positions can come from the national, state, or local level. 
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Issues We Are Guided By

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LWV National Issues
The LWVUS has five main issues guiding the activity of all local leagues:
  • Expanding Voter Access
  • Fighting Voter Suppression 
  • ​Money in Politics
  • Redistricting
  • Safe and Fair Elections
  • Plus other work

Impact on the Issues (2020-2022) is the League's official guide to their public policy positions. It includes the official statements of position for each program area. The LWVUS public policy positions “in brief” reflect the program adopted by the 2020 Convention of the League of Women Voters of the United States.

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LWV Greater Peoria Local Issues
The LWVGP has five main issues guiding the activity of all local leagues:
  • Expanding Voter Access
  • Fighting Voter Suppression 
  • ​Money in Politics
  • Redistricting
  • Safe and Fair Elections

July 2023 - Climate Committee on CO2 Pipeline
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Read the full message to the right of this box.

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LWV Illinois Issues
LWVIL has positions on many issues of political activity in these three areas:
  • Voting Rights and Election Processes​
  • Climate Change Crisis
  • Equitably Meeting Basic Human Needs
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Issues are defined where activity is anticipated at the state legislative level—​issues where we have strong member interest and an opportunity for the League to make an impact. The work of local Leagues is guided by these positions. 

The details of LWVIL's current positions can be found at Where We Stand 2021-2023
Statement of the League of Women Voters
of Greater Peoria, Illinois, regarding CO2 Pipelines.


Since the 1960s, the League of Women Voters has championed efforts to protect air, land, and water resources. The League recognizes that the “… preservation of the physical, chemical, and biological integrity of the earth’s ecosystem is essential for the maximum protection of public health and the environment…” (statement of the national League of Women Voters).

More recently, the national League of Women Voters has said that “… state and local Leagues [of Women Voters] and individual League members, have a critical role to play in helping to limit future climate change and protect the planet”. Because of the U.S. League’s commitment to protect our natural resources, the
environment, and public health, the Illinois League of Women Voters is supporting the work of the “Coalition to Stop CO2 Pipelines (noillinoisco2pipelines.org), in opposing the  construction of CO2 pipelines across Illinois. The Coalition is concerned about safety issues resulting from the operation of these pipelines, and, additionally, the potential  impact that proposed pipelines could have on environmental justice communities.

The League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria stands with the state League in its concerns about the safety of CO2 pipelines as these pipelines are currently envisioned and planned. The federal agency in charge of pipeline safety, U.S. Department of
Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has acknowledged that “… new measures to strengthen its safety oversight of carbon
dioxide (CO 2 ) pipelines around the country and protect communities from dangerous pipeline failures…” are required (PHMSA statement May 26, 2022). Without those guidelines that PHMSA recognizes are needed, our communities are at risk from the construction of CO2 pipelines.

This concern about CO2 pipeline safety has special urgency in our local central Illinois community, as Wolf Carbon Solutions/ADM has proposed laying a CO2 pipeline through parts of Peoria County, including areas in the South Side of the City of Peoria.

We call on our elected state and local officials to enact meaningful regulations that will protect our farmers, our communities, and our farmland -- a valuable resource that our lives depend on. Until adequate safeguards are in place, until the public has had a full opportunity to be meaningfully informed and heard on the issues, until dangers to health and the environment have been fully addressed and resolved, we oppose the construction of any CO2 pipelines.
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Past Topics for Study Include

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Direct Election of the President

The League of Women Voters believes that the Electoral College should be abolished in favor of a direct popular vote. 

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Redistricting

LWVIL is one of the groups now lobbying to get the Illinois state legislature to put a constitutional amendment on the 2020 ballot for voters to determine if they support redistricting reform.

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Peoria Township Proposal

The LWVGP's Committee studying the Peoria Township Proposal is working is to determine if the proposal should be supported, opposed, or no position taken.

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Other past positions:
  • Water Utility Buyout
  • eTransparency
  • Positions related to City and County government
  • Affordable Care Act
Serving the people of Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford and Rock Island Counties in Illinois​.
The League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria encourages informed and active participation in government and works to influence public policy through education and advocacy. Any person, 16 or older,regardless of gender, may join.

The LWV is nonpartisan and neither supports nor opposes candidates for elected office but does act on issues after member study and consensus.     
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