Communications.

Recent efforts have been successful in ensuring publication in major print media of several pieces authored by LWVUS President Kay Maxwell. These include a letter to the editor about the Carter-Baker Commission election reform recommendations published in the New York Times and an op-ed piece with Public Citizen's Nicholas Nyhart about "Clean Elections" in Connecticut printed in the Hartford Courant. President Maxwell was also highlighted in a feature article about the League in New York Newsday, and an article about voter ID in the AARP Bulletin. Maxwell and LWVUS Executive Director Nancy Tate also wrote a feature article for the September issue of the American Society of Association Executives magazine.

During the early fall, the communications department worked with other LWV staff to organize President Maxwell's participation in several Capitol Hill press events. Maxwell moderated the Local Voices report release event and spoke at the release of The Shape of Representative Democracy, a redistricting reform report.