Nonpartisan Policy

Re-adopted on July 24, 2005

The LWVUS is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

The LWVC shall not support or oppose any political party or any candidate. The LWVC Board and each member have the responsibility to maintain the nonpartisanship of the organization.

The LWVHC shall not support or oppose any political party or candidate. The LWVHC Board, as well as each Board member, has the responsibility to maintain the nonpartisanship of the organization.

A board member shall not run for or hold an elective position.

A board member shall not speak in public against a League position.

The President, the Voter Service Director, the Public Relations Chair and the Action Directors shall not take an active, visible role in, or make a financial contribution to, any political candidates' campaign, or to any political party. They are not allowed to attend any fundraising function of any individual candidate.

Other Board members shall not undertake any action which will cause them to be identified publicly as supporting any candidate for elective office or any political party. They may attend political, but not partisan functions. They may make donations to candidates, providing their names are not published as contributors or endorsers.

The political activities of a spouse or relative of a Board member are to be considered as separate and distinct from the activities of a Board member.

A person resigning from the Board for political reasons will have to
remain off the Board for at least three months following that political
activity.

Questions about specific situations should be presented to the full
Board for interpretation and resolution.

Established by the Board August 12, 1996
Last updated by the Board September 7, 2004