12:00 AM
League Mock Elections For High School Students -- "Engaging a New Generation of Voters"
An exciting simulated voting experience will be held in four public high schools, starting with
a Candidate Forum on Wed., Sept 24 and a Mock Election on Thurs. Sept. 25 at Shaw High School located in East Cleveland.

The League of Women Voters Cuyahoga Area, with the participation of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections and the schools' government teaching staffs, has designed these mock elections to show young citizens how the process works and encourage a lifelong interest in voting.

Funding provided by The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation and the LWV Cuyahoga Area Education Fund, Inc.
Location:
Four Mock Elections: Shaw High School, East Cleveland; Lakewood High School; Valley Forge High School and Westlake High School.
Click here for more information

7:00 PM
Putting Voters First forum on Public Campaign Financing
More money will be spent on the 2008 Presidential and Congressional campaign than for any other election in history. Corporations, special interest PACs, and wealthy individuals,
through their political contributions, increasingly determine who is “electable.”

It’s different in some state elections, however. For example, in 2003, Maine voters passed an initiative providing public funding to any qualified political candidate who agrees not to accept any private political contributions. According to voters and candidates across the political spectrum, Maine’s public funding law has been a rousing success.

How does it really work? How do candidates qualify for public funds? Could it happen here? How could it happen nation-wide? Can we control corporate influence of elections?

Join us on Sept. 24th at 7pm for a discussion of the issue with ample time for Q & A.

Co-Sponsored by:
the Cleveland Committee on Corporations,
Law and Democracy,
Northeast Ohio American Friends Service
Committee,
the Progressive Democrats of America, and Common Cause Ohio

More information: 216-231-2170

Location:
Cleveland Heights-University Heights Main Library
2345 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights