Sunday, January 22, 2023

Oppose LB 574, 575, 371. Support Rights of Trans, nonbinary, LBTQ+ Nebraskans

Greetings, Senator X, 

As a constituent, I'm writing to ask you to oppose LB 574 and LB 575.


LB 574 Bans Gender Affirming Care and LB 575 Bans Trans Youth from Participating in Sports Consistent with their Gender Identity.

I’m also asking you to oppose LB 371 Prohibit Youth under 21 from Attending Drag Shows and any other anti-trans or anti-gay bill. I’m sending this via ACLU site and via email to ensure you get this important message.

I’ll try to keep this brief and provide information from sources other than my own life and strong emotions. 


Simply put, all 3 of these bills, (and any other anti-trans anti-gay etc. bills or resolutions) are discrimination (which is illegal), as well as shameful and ignorant. Not only do I have a transgender niece, but I've met and cared for a number of other nonbinary and LGBTQ+ people in my life. Even if I didn’t know anyone nonbinary or LGBTQ+, I would never approve of the hatred, discrimination, and stripping of civil and human rights for people who are simply living their lives. 


In reference to LB 574 to Ban Gender Affirming Care. This bill, if passed, would have extreme negative effects that could increase suicides among youth, among many other drawbacks. According to the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry: “It is well documented that TGNB [transgender, and nonbinary minors] adolescents and young adults experience anxiety and depression, as well as suicidal ideation, at a much higher rate than their cisgender peers. According to The Trevor Project’s 2020 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, 54 percent of young people who identified as transgender or nonbinary reported having seriously considered suicide in the last year, and 29 percent have made an attempt to end their lives. In contrast, numerous research studies have found that gender-affirming care leads to improved mental health among TGNB youth.” https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/news/gender-affirming-care-saves-lives 


I notice your name on LB 575 to ban transgender youth from participating in sports with their gender. I do not know your reasoning, but I implore you to remove your name and support from this bill. People do NOT undergo changes in gender assignment to get a leg up on competition. Look at what discrimination they already face - lawmakers trying to ban them from sports, for one. People don't willingly try to make their life harder, but creating laws like this DOES make their lives harder. 


Also, the bill is faulty as far as science goes. People try to claim that a person is either biologically female or male, but that’s simply not true. Nature doesn’t work in binaries, even if people like labels. You’ve likely heard by now that a number of people are born intersex. According to Planned Parenthood, “Intersex is a general term used for a variety of situations in which a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit the boxes of “female” or “male.” … Being intersex is a naturally occurring variation in humans, and it isn’t a medical problem … Being intersex is also more common than most people realize. It’s hard to know exactly how many people are intersex, but estimates suggest that about 1-2 in 100 people born in the U.S. are intersex.” https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/sex-gender-identity

In addition, think of the civil right infringements and personal violations you’d be putting upon students to prove their biological sex in order to play a sport. In fact, many years ago, they stopped testing Olympic athletes. An article from 2000 from the Yale School of Medicine reported: “"In reality, gender verification tests are difficult, expensive, and potentially inaccurate," said Myron Genel, M.D., a pediatric endocrinologist at the Yale School of Medicine and co-author of a commentary on gender testing published in the September 27 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. "Furthermore, these tests fail to exclude all potential impostors, are discriminatory against women with disorders of sexual development, and may have shattering consequences for athletes who 'fail' a test."”  https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/decision-to-abolish-gender-testing-at-sydney-olympics-supported-by-yale-physician/ 


Who are you really protecting when you are forcing high school athletes to undergo gender testing to play a sport? You’re catering to the fear and ignorance of a certain group of people who do not look to science and reality for guidance. They spend so much time fearful of a boogeyman that they don’t even realize that their own children will negatively suffer. And all in the name of ‘sports.’ Why should schools have that level of genetic information on their students? They shouldn’t. The possible repercussions of this bill have not been investigated in the slightest and this would be foolish and discriminatory to implement. Again, please remove your name and support from this bill.

In reference to LB 371 Prohibit Youth under 21 from Attending Drag Shows, I don’t really have an article to refer to and I can’t even begin to explain how absolutely ridiculous this bill is. If a person doesn’t want to go to a drag show, or doesn’t want their child to see someone in a costume, they don’t have to attend. But this bill is so poorly thought out that theater could be illegal. Not able to wear makeup? All the men I know in theater have worn makeup. Male newscasters wear makeup on TV and in films. Why are people so obsessed about the gender of clothing and makeup and general appearance? It wasn’t that long ago that it was illegal for women to wear pants. In a country that’s supposed to be free, certain people are zealously over-involved in the idea of what other people do with their freedom.  

I have a feeling that the people that created and support this bill have never been to a drag show. They are living in fear of the things they don’t know and have created strange ideas that are far from reality. I myself have attended drag events while under age 21 and you know what it did to me? It taught me how to love and support people, to have a good time, let people enjoy themselves. It taught me how creative people can get when they come up with their costumes and how important it is to express oneself, have an outlet.  


Creating laws that ban people from attending events like this gives the false impression that there’s something wrong with it. Even without such laws, there’ve been too many attacks on gay clubs that leave people dead and lives shattered. Drag shows don’t do that. Hatred, misinformation, ignorance, and terrorists do that. LB 371 feeds into that and it should be struck down. People should be able to congregate safely in places that want them to feel unashamed of who they are. Everyone deserves that.

As far as Drag Story Hour goes, one of the events certain people are so fearful about, I think it sounds like so much fun. If I had kids, I would take them to enjoy someone wearing a fun outfit who wants to read them. I’d love for my child to learn to not judge someone on something as frivolous as what they wear, or who they love. I’d love for my child to learn to think beyond limits and labels and restrictions from narrow minds. Youth should be encouraged to explore, to dream, to imagine. Drag Story Hour is one of many options that can do that for children and it should be any guardian’s right to let their child attend something like that. Otherwise, where is our freedom? Why are our lives and freedoms becoming restrictive and narrow because of someone else’s fear and misconceptions?

The people who live their lives in fear have threatened violence upon events like these, events that have children present. Those people should be ashamed (and prosecuted). They claim they care about kids' safety, but they clearly don’t. They are the dangerous people, not someone in a costume reading to a group of kids. 


The fact is, many people in this world, in this state are LGBTQ+ and they have finally achieved some level of legal protection. We shouldn’t be regressing to a time of less rights. Banning youth from being around people in drag is dumb dumb dumb. It’s hatred. It’s government overreach. It’s discrimination. It’s teaching self-hatred as well. Too many children grow up in homes that use religion as a weapon, and it’s the children that suffer. I know that happens in X County, in Nebraska and all over the country and the world, and it makes me sick. I’m worried for kids that get the message that there’s something wrong with them or people like them, when the REAL problem is the number of ignorant people who feel comfortable spewing hatred, lies, and creating dangerous legislation that violates our rights. You have a chance to do something positive, even if some of your other constituents want you to act from fear and ignorance. You can oppose all of these hateful, discriminatory, poorly-constructed bills. 


If you haven’t been in contact with people in the LGBTQ+ community in Nebraska, I highly encourage you to reach out and meet them. A group called “Out Nebraska” recently hosted a Drag Story Hour, after a previous event had to be postponed due to hateful threats. https://linktr.ee/outnebraska Another group in the Panhandle works to serve LGBTQ youth in more rural areas, something that I wish existed in our own county. https://www.panhandleequality.org/about-us 


Although I didn’t manage to keep this message short, I hope it has helped you see that LB 574, LB 575, and LB 371 are dangerous, poorly planned, and should be opposed. Likewise any other anti-trans, anti-gay bills that are out there or come up in the future. I encourage you to read some of those links above, learn from LGBTQ+ Nebraskans, join with the Senators defending trans rights, and perhaps even talk to your fellow Senators about these concerns to get them to oppose these bills as well. 


I am asking you to stand up and protect the rights of trans kids so that every single trans kid in Nebraska feels like, and knows, that they belong here. Stop government overreach and protect trans youth.


Sincerely,


X

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Fight the Ban - 10 Reasons to Safeguard Abortion - Nebraska oppose LB 781, 933, 1086

 Greetings, Senator X,

 

This is X from X


I’ve emailed you previously and you would send responses, which was always appreciated, but I haven’t received responses in a while. I’ve written a few times on the anti-abortion bills 781, 933, and 1086, and used the ACLU site for contact, and hope these message are being delivered to your inbox, and not the junk folder :) 


I did contact your office and briefly mentioned that and alerted your aide that I would send another email. 


Since discussion of one of these bills will be happening soon, I wanted to reiterate that I expect you to vote NO to these and any bill that jeopardizes women’s access to safe, legal abortions. 


I’ve collected 10 reasons you must oppose LBs 781, 933, and 1086: (Hopefully this makes it a little easier to peruse) 


  1. Those who insist abortions be made illegal are trying to put their religious beliefs into law that affects other people, and violates THEIR religious beliefs. We have separation of church and state for a reason.

  2. No one can be forced to have an abortion against their will, and no should be forced to carry a pregnancy against their will. Banning abortions forces women to carry pregnancies against their will.

  3. Pregnancy comes with many risks, the most severe being risk of death. If abortion is made illegal and pregnancies are required to be carried to term, that means women are not able to fully consent to the risks but are being sacrificed for an ideal by the state. 

  4. A person cannot be required to donate organ, tissue, or blood without consent, even if it saves another person’s life. This is still true after their death. Parallel to this is the obvious concept that a woman is not required to carry a pregnancy to term, even though the life of the fetus is in question. 

  5. Women are human beings and we have human rights and reproductive rights that mean we can choose if, how, and when to have children. Banning abortion is a violation of these rights.

  6. Abortion is a medical procedure and may be brought into play for a number of reasons, even by women who had initially chosen to carry the pregnancy to term. Outlawing medical procedures because certain people don’t like them…. Is nonsensical. 

  7. Outlawing abortion does not end abortion, but ends safe abortions. Women’s lives are put at risk when safe procedures are wrongfully taken away.

  8. Rapists in Nebraska have parental rights. This is unethical for one, but imagine a woman is raped and pregnancy is now required. You are possibly forcing women to co-parent or get in a custody battle with their rapists, who de facto, are not safe for children to be around. Why are women so despised that they have to suffer multiple indignities?

  9. According to the ACLU, Nebraska ranks 50th in state funding for family planning services that reduce unintended pregnancies. This makes sense as Nebraskans are afraid to teach comprehensive sex education in schools. Parents have raised enough stink that even public schools teach abstinence only and refrain from teaching about contraception. Abstinence only is a farce. It endangers youth and withholds information they need. Abstinence only has been proven to lead to unsafe sex and unwanted pregnancies. So not only are teens NOT learning about how to prevent unwanted pregnancies, banning abortion means they have no choice and are being punished for engaging in sex. Let’s catch up with the rest of the world and stop denying our children actual information they need to operate in the real world. 

  10. We are wasting taxpayer time and money with each anti-choice anti-abortion law. Let’s do like Colorado and safeguard the right to abortion so women don’t have to constantly fight for our basic human rights.


Thank you for taking the time to read my message. You can guess this is a very important issue to me, and I do trust you will vote NO with these items in mind. 


Thank you, 


X

Monday, April 4, 2022

Additional Contact: oppose LBs 781, 933, 1086, Nebraska anti-abortion laws

 Greetings, Senator X, 

 

I am again writing in opposition to LBs 781, 933, and 1086, which are: the “Heartbeat Act” introduced by Senator Slama, the “Human Life Protection Act” introduced by Senator Albrecht, and the Chemical Abortion Safety Protocol Act, introduced by Senator Geist.

 

I have written on this before but this issue is of utmost importance to me. Please respond to confirm that you have received my correspondence. If I don't hear from you, I’ll want to call the office to ensure that my concerns are being heard. As you can see from the length of my message, an email can better address my thoughts than a phone call. :) 

 

First of all, no one is forcing women to have abortions (that’s illegal), so these bills are needless. However, these bills take away the right to abortion thereby forcing women to give birth, which is dangerous and unethical, and should also be illegal.

 

With all of this anti-choice/anti-abortion legislation I do not feel that women are safe in the state of Nebraska and I do not feel there is an appropriate separation of church and state. 

 

I understand there are people who look at abortion and pregnancy a certain way, but I do not agree that women are obligated to carry a pregnancy to term. No one should be forced into pregnancy to satiate the beliefs of strangers. There are people of all religious beliefs who DO believe a woman maintains the right to make a decision, so these anti-abortion laws are being created to appease a few over-reaching uninvolved people, and that needs to stop. It’s extremely unethical to ban abortion for others, as it is a reproductive right related to bodily autonomy. 

 

I’ve reminded you in my previous correspondence that current legislation around organ donation reflects that a person has bodily autonomy. A person cannot be required to give blood, tissue, or organs to anyone else, even if it saves that person's life. The same should be held as true for pregnancy. 

 

I'm disturbed at the idea that so many people want women to be forced to carry pregnancies to term period, much less in cases of rape, incest, or when it endangers a hopeful mother later in the pregnancy. 

 

My mother mentioned to me just yesterday that two of our neighbors died giving birth and had to be revived, and were then told they should not have further pregnancies. Pregnancy has many risks and is not something to take lightly. Forcing women to continue pregnancies takes away the consent aspect needed in order for a woman to have freely chosen pregnancy. DEATH is a risk of pregnancy. If you force women to continue pregnancies against their will, the state has taken away a woman’s ability to freely consent to that risk. That is NOT freedom of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That is some dystopian government level stuff and needs to be avoided by protecting abortion as the health care it is.

 

You cannot force someone to have an abortion, so a pregnancy, with higher risks and more significant outcomes (a human life), cannot be forced upon a woman, as these anti-abortion laws do. 

 

Women who choose abortions are aware of the significance of either choice. Women have been aware of the seriousness of pregnancy and abortion since a young age and neither choice is made lightly. Women choose abortion for a plethora of reasons, including women who are already mothers, or women who wanted that child but must terminate for the safety of themselves of their child. Some women who are cancer patients must terminate a pregnancy so that they may undergo chemotherapy and radiation that would otherwise injure the fetus. Women need to be able to make these choices themselves, not have options stolen from them by uninvolved parties. 

 

“Your right to swing your fist, ends where my face begins.” A person can choose to not have an abortion for themselves, but they can’t make that decision for someone else. This is common sense and needs to be applied in Nebraska by protecting the right to abortion and opposing LBs 781, 933, and 1086 immediately. 

 

The fact that Nebraska is a state in which rapists have parental rights is disturbing. In the Nebraska that some of these zealots want, a woman could be forced to birth a child from rape and co-parent with her rapist. That is NOT a world I want, nor a world that values women, or their ability to live a dignified life. 

 

Women's reproductive rights MUST be protected from these overreaching attacks on our liberty and bodily autonomy. You must oppose this legislation, or you are complicit in the suffering of women in Nebraska. 

 

Abortion should remain legal and accessible for all who seek it. 

 

If people want to claim pro-life, they need to separate themselves from thinking of it only in terms of birth. 

 

Universal Health Care, Universal Child Care, an Actual Living Wage, comprehensive sex ed in school (abstinence only is a sham in which youth are ill prepared for reality), working to abolish war, and more.... THOSE are all more pro-life than forcing women to give birth by taking away the right to abortion. 

 

Thank you for your time. I sincerely hope I can count on you to oppose LBs 781, 933, 1086 to ensure that women are safe in Nebraska. 

 

Thank you 

 

X


Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Nebraska: OPPOSE LB 1077 Prohibit education about race and sex introduced by Senator B. Hansen

Committee: Government, Military and Veterans Affairs

OPPOSE LB 1077 Prohibit education about race and sex introduced by Senator B. Hansen


Greetings, Senator X, 


My name is X from X, District X.

I write in opposition to LB 1077, prohibiting teaching “certain concepts” about race and sex, introduced by Senator B. Hansen.


When looking at the summary of intent and then the bill itself, I’m just struck by how absurd, vague, needless, and reactionary this bill is, as well as how difficult it would be to enforce, especially because it censors free speech. 


Limiting our education system to avoid talking about “race and sex” is dooming our education system. Our nation is built upon injustices and if we cannot fully discuss history with the aim of addressing it and improving the present and future, we are doomed to repeat the bad parts of history. 


This bill is created by people who are unwilling to view history as it really is, and how it affects the world today. We will never advance as a nation if we are not willing to have difficult discussions, to LISTEN to the people who have been systematically disenfranchised in this country and around the world. This bill essentially tells people to “shut up” because it makes others “uncomfortable” to hear about what other people experience. That “discomfort” pales in comparison to the uncomfortable realities that are being silenced with a bill like LB 1077.


One thing that especially struck me was Section 4, 4a-b. A student couldn’t get extra credit for doing what I am doing right now… reaching out to legislators, being civic-minded and engaged in the democratic process, expecting my concerns to be of interest to elected officials who are supposed to represent me and uphold my best interests. Being engaged in the legislation of our nation SHOULD be encouraged. Trying to make the laws better SHOULD be encouraged. 


LB 1077 does NOT make sense, not as it is written, nor as a concept in general. It restricts education and free speech. It is counteractive to the growth and compassion and empathy that should be happening in classrooms and in places of discussion. 


Some of the most important conversations and discussions I’ve been privy to HAVE been uncomfortable truths about race and gender and I am GLAD. Learning about history in all its ugliness, listening to others who have backgrounds and experiences different from my own, being encouraged to change the world to be a better place, to be civic-minded and engaged in creating better places for EVERYONE, this has molded me to be a person who cares about others and who wants to improve life for others. 


This bill is horrendously antithetical to education and is a disservice to students, educators, and the general public. Places of learning should be for learning, discussion, and improvement, NOT censorship and ignorance. 


I am strongly opposed to LB 1077 and I urge the Committee and Senators to vote NO. 


Thank you for your time


X

Nebraska: Proponent of LB 1129 & LB 716 - free contraception, qualified abortion practitioners

Background: emailed my Senator and Health and Human Services Committee prior to the Committee Hearing.  

Greetings, Senator X,


My name is X in X, District X. 

I write as a proponent of LB 1129, free contraceptives, introduced by Senator Morfeld.

I write as a proponent of LB 716, allowing qualified practitioners to perform abortions, introduced by Senator Hunt. 


I am a film believer that women’s choice and reproductive freedoms should be protected, as it is a pinnacle part of our human rights. This includes access to contraception and abortions. 


In relation to LB 1129, contraception can be expensive for some people and it is an important element to women being able to exercise some control over their daily life. Some women are not ready for children, do not want children, or need to use their resources to care for children they already have. All of these are important to our freedoms, self-determination, and reproductive rights. 


Our health insurance system in our country fails to provide people the ability to meet their health care needs. There was a time in which health care covered contraception and that was a life saver to so many women, who oftentimes use contraception to address other issues outside of its common use of birth control. Unfortunately, there is a gap once again. 


When the cost of contraception can be covered, women are supported. It also will help down the line to prevent unwanted/unintended pregnancies and perhaps some children cycling through poverty, dangerous situations, or CPS. Anything that can be done to help women with their health and family planning is a benefit to the community at large.


In regards to LB 716, abortion access has been under attack and there have been detrimental efforts to make this important option less accessible to women. We need to understand that abortion IS health care. Therefore, allowing a higher number of qualified practitioners to perform abortions is a benefit to expanding this health care that protects our reproductive rights. Women need MORE options, not less.

I am a proponent of both LB1129 & LB 716 and hope you will do your part to get these bills passed. Please vote yes to support women.


Thank you for your time


X


Monday, February 21, 2022

Nebraska: OPPOSITION to LB 781, LB 933, & LB 1086 - Antiabortion bills

I emailed the Judicial Committee ahead of the hearing on three anti-abortion bills in the 2022 Unicameral Legislature.

OPPOSITION to LB 781, LB 933, LB 1086 Greetings, Senator X My name is X in X, District X. I write in opposition to LB 781, the “Heartbeat Act” introduced by Senator Slama. I write in opposition to LB 933 the “Human Life Protection Act” introduced by Senator Albrecht. I write in opposition to LB 1086, Chemical Abortion Safety Protocol Act, introduced by Senator Geist. Outlawing abortion endangers women and is an affront to civil rights, human rights, reproductive rights, bodily autonomy, self-determination, and our basic freedoms. It treats women as second class citizens forbidden from making decisions that affect their health, bodies, and lives. Outlawing abortion means that the state has decided that all women must be subjected to the risk of death should there be complications in the pregnancy. Therefore it does not protect women’s lives. Pregnancy and childbirth is an undertaking that has short-term and long-term risks. When women are not allowed to assess what is best for them and are forced into pregnancies, we are living in a dystopian society that views women as vessels and not autonomous human beings. In Nebraska, rapists have parental rights, so when you take away a woman’s right to an abortion, you are subjecting her to the trauma of possibly co-parenting with her rapist, or relinquishing her child to her rapist. This is cruel and avoidable by allowing women to make the decision they find to be in their best interest (and by preventing rapists to have parental rights). We do not live in a society conducive to pregnancy and child-rearing. We do not have a living wage. We do not have mandatory paid maternity leave. We do not have universal health care. We do not have universal child care. You cannot force women to undergo pregnancies in a society that does not protect them financially. Even if all of these social and governmental ills were addressed, (and they should be) it’s still unethical and wrong to force a woman into a pregnancy. Even if Person A is in need of an organ and Person B is a perfect match, Person B cannot be coerced into providing said organ. Similarly, if Person C has not opted into Organ & Tissue Donation before death, their organs may NOT be harvested once they die. In the same vein, you cannot force a woman to use her body in a way that is against her wishes, even if a embryo/fetus/child will be prevented from developing. The idea of a ‘heartbeat’ has often been misconstrued to promote an agenda. A fetus's heart is not formed until closer to 10 weeks, even if a palpitation is audible closer to 6 weeks when it is still considered an embryo. At any rate, it cannot survive outside the womb until several months have passed, so it is absurd to restrict women from a hugely important decision at such an early stage. Women may not know they are pregnant prior to detection of a ‘heartbeat.’ Scheduling any procedure can take time and appointments may not be available in a timely manner. It requires a woman to be able to change a work schedule (i.e. lose money), find transportation, and rearrange child care. The cruelty of this restriction is intentional and shows no compassion, empathy, or understanding for the real burdens women face. Women choose abortion for a plethora of options, none of which are up for debate. Abortion may even be the best option for protecting women who originally wanted to continue the pregnancy. It is inappropriate and dangerous for uninformed, uninvolved people to make generalized laws that prohibit doctors and health care providers from performing procedures that are in the best interest of their patient. Those who would tell women they cannot terminate a pregnancy are overreaching into realms that do not include them. There is no need to pry into women’s private lives and complicate things that have nothing to do with the unsolicited opinion of a stranger. Laws preventing women from terminating pregnancies are very often shame-based and meant to punish women for having sex. Men escape this scrutiny despite being at least 50% responsible. I am uninterested in the moral beliefs of these people and they are infringing upon my civil liberties with their belief systems. This needs to end. As far as LB 1086, this is yet another method meant to make it harder for women to access abortions. We should be expanding systems of complete sex education, and access to methods of contraception and abortion so that people can safely choose what is best for them. I trust women to make choices for themselves with their chosen medical provider. I know women who have had abortions, women who have given birth, women who have never given birth, women who have struggled with fertility, women who have fostered, or adopted. Some of these women have experienced a variety of those situations. My wish is for all women to have the resources and support they need to make the best choice for themselves without the moral judgments or unnecessary legal restrictions from uninvolved parties. Again, I am in opposition to LB 781, LB 933, and LB 1086. They are needless, cruel, and should be dismissed for their affront to human rights. Vote no to each. Thank you for your time,


X


Nebraska: Support LB 793 & LB 125 Ranked Choice Voting

I emailed my own senator, as well as those on the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. LB 793 will have a hearing in the next day or so and I wanted to lend my support 
Support LB 793 & LB 125 Ranked Choice Voting


Greetings, Senator X,


My name is X in X, District X and I write in support of LB 793 for Ranked Choice Voting for local elections and in support of LB 125 for Ranked Choice Voting for Presidential/Gubernatorial etc elections, both introduced by Senator X.


There are wide-reaching benefits to introducing a ballot that allows voters to rank their choices in candidates. 


It is more cost-efficient and it would allow us to eliminate costly primaries and run-offs. 


It would also allow for a more true democracy and more positive engagement, instead of a choice between two major parties only. Many people feel disenfranchised knowing their vote doesn’t truly count, but with Ranked Choice Voting it does.


Ranked Choice Voting is used in 26 states for local, municipal, primary, or special elections, and 21 states have introduced legislation recently.

I support the change in our voting system to better represent the will of the people and allow for the adoption of a more efficient system and hope you will vote in support to make LB 125 & 793 a reality for Nebraska. 

Thank you for your time.