In Plymouth, the League of Women Voters celebrates 100 years of dedication to insuring the rights of voters.
For more than 50 of those years, the Plymouth League’s Mary LeSueur has been a member. She is being honored statewide for outstanding service.
Bobbi Clark has more:
“At that time in the 60’s, certainly in the 50’s when the League was born in 1959, it was younger women with baby carriages and strollers. At that time the League provided baby-sitting for its members.”
But, when women went to work the League lost members:
“And now I see a resurgence, particularly in our own League, we not only have minorities in our League, on our board, we also have two young ladies, one at Plymouth South, one in Plymouth North, as well as another young lady who is now at Northeastern.”
LeSueur says citizen education has always been a top priority and back then getting the message out was less complicated, it was only radio, TV and newspapers.
“And then it was relatively simple. Today social media has taken over and there are so many different avenues, not all of whom have the same goal. And yet it’s more important than ever that citizens need to be educated.”
And to that end, the Plymouth League had a goal this fall in the run up to the Presidential election, concerning education about the many ways to vote:
“…such as mail-in voting, or going to the polls, or early voting.”
