LWVUS Opposes Effort to Exclude Noncitizens from Apportionment Count (Legal Document) 5/7/2024 LWVUS and partners urged Congress to oppose H.R. 7109, the Equal Representation Act, which would ask about citizenship status on the decennial census…
REPORT: Women Voters by the Numbers (Blog) 5/2/2024 Note: This blog contains data obtained from the US Census that delineates voter trends based on age, race, and gender. While valuable data is shown,…, Overall, women voted at higher rates than men. Turnout was particularly high in Arizona, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Kansas, Maine, Maryland…, In 2022, the gaps between women and men voters were highest in the white, non-Hispanic and Black communities. Likewise, they were highest among the…
Voting Abroad: Absentee Voting for Overseas Citizens (Blog) 3/27/2024 Whether they’re in the military, studying abroad, or permanently living overseas, all US citizens living abroad who are eligible to vote can still…, States can extend this right even further by: Allowing overseas voters to vote in state and local elections; Granting citizens…, In 1975, Congress passed the Overseas Citizens Voting Rights Act (OCVRA), which required states to grant any eligible overseas US citizen the right…, If you're a citizen who has never resided in the US, you can check this list of states to see if you’re eligible to vote using a parent, legal…
Day in the Life: Attending the New Hampshire Primaries (Blog) 3/22/2024 The highly anticipated New Hampshire primary almost always received considerable media attention. During the primary, presidential candidates compete…, Now, this isn’t my first time visiting New Hampshire for the primary. For many years, I worked as a producer for C-SPAN, so I know how busy the state…, Joined by LWVUS Chief Counsel Celina Stewart, I took off from DCA for a short flight into Manchester. There was some snow on the ground, but it was…, After spending time at the Memorial High School polling location, we decided to refuel for lunch — well, actually breakfast — at the Red Arrow Diner…, Despite a robocall impersonating President Biden that went out two days before the primary — which the League has now filed a lawsuit around and…
Group sues after novel Biden deepfake urged voters to skip N.H. primary (News Clips) 3/17/2024 This story was originally published by The Washington Post. A voting advocacy group is suing a political consultant and companies behind an AI-…