
Our Positions
The League of Women Voters takes action on an issue only when we have a position addressing that particular issue. Members must study and come to consensus on an issue, in order to form a position.
This thorough grassroots process ensures that our advocacy is well considered by a broad range of people, understood by our members, and we have a sense of the political environment.
Charter Schools and Virtual Schools in Idaho
The League of Women Voters of Idaho supports public oversight through elected officials and officers in the formation, governance, and operation of charter schools.
Child Care
The League of Women Voters of Idaho supports enforceable child-care licensing regulations that address health, safety, fire and supervision standards.
Columbia River Basin
The League of Women Voters of Idaho supports minimum stream flows; support for comprehensive planning on a basin-wide basis for conservation, development, and management; supports an inventory of water resources within the basin.
Education in Idaho
The League of Women Voters of Idaho supports for revision of the state school fund distribution formula to achieve greater equalization of educational opportunity and tax burden; supports increased state funding for public schools; support for kindergartens, career and vocational education, and special education; supports reducing the supermajority required to pass bonds.
Endowment Lands
The League of Women Voters of Idaho supports management of Idaho’s endowment lands to provide maximum revenue consistent with good land management policies and practices, protection of the environment and preservation of future values; supports a statutorily-created Land Board.
Hazardous Materials
The League of Women Voters of Idaho supports state legislation mandating the Worker and Community's right to know concerning hazardous materials; supports state efforts to ensure public safety and the protection of the environment in the transportation of hazardous materials.
Health Care
The League of Women Voters of Idaho supports a basic level of quality health care at an affordable cost available to all residents and a reasonable total expenditure level for health care.
Idaho's Tax Structure
The League of Women Voters of Idaho supports a tax structure that is balanced, progressive, i.e., graduated based upon income, and adequate, and which is administered in a thorough and cost-effective manner.
Judicial Selection
The League of Women Voters supports merit selection with retention by uncontested election as the preferred method of choosing judges for Idaho state courts.
Land-Use Planning
The League of Women Voters of Idaho supports comprehensive land-use planning for Idaho; supports local planning within state guidelines and with state assistance; supports citizen participation and consideration of the public’s interest in land-use decisions.
Minimum Wage
The League of Women Voters of Idaho supports the Idaho Legislature setting a state minimum wage rate, that is higher than the 2017 federal minimum wage and will then adjust automatically based on a scientifically valid index linked to the cost-of-living in Idaho.
Reapportionment
The League of Women Voters of Idaho supports a bipartisan citizens' reapportionment commission to reapportion both houses of the Idaho legislature on a population basis with substantially equal legislative districts; supports anti-gerrymandering controls, public hearings, and judicial review.
Rehabilitative Programs in Idaho's Criminal Justice System
The League of Women Voters of Idaho supports educational and transitional programs directly linked to current offender populations and mechanisms which hold contractors immediately accountable for the programs they deliver.
Sentencing Policy
The League of Women Voters of Idaho believes alternatives to imprisonment should be explored and utilized, taking into consideration the circumstances and nature of the crime.
Vote By Mail
The League of Women Voters of Idaho supports a vote by mail election system in Idaho that is secure, accurate, recountable, and accessible with particular focus on measures that address concerns about accessibility and security of voting by mail.