In the Know: COVID-19 Voting Litigation (Blog) 8/10/2020 A national overview of the League’s COVID-related voting rights cases In early January, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued the first public…
People Powering the Vote: League Leaders and the fight for the VRAA (Blog) 8/6/2020 Today is August 6th, 2020. It has been 244 days since the Voting Rights Advancement Act passed the U.S. …
Juneteenth: A Celebration of Emancipation and Black Liberation (Blog) 6/19/2020 Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States, and just one of several “…, The League’s Work to Expand and Protect the Vote Leagues across the country have acknowledged our complicity in the historic failure of democracy to…
Standing Up for Voting Rights in 2020: A Plaintiff’s Story (Blog) 6/8/2020 “We have to stop closing doors preventing people from voting and start opening them. It is our right to vote, and…, Knowing all of this, and even having a childhood friend killed by white supremacists celebrating the Birmingham Church bombing, Vivian was…
Celebrating 50 Years of Earth Day (Blog) 4/22/2020 Today marks 50 years of celebrating Earth Day, a day meant to inspire all Americans to celebrate the living organisms that make up the…, The last 50 years have seen many changes to how we protect the earth, but the original activist spirit surrounding Earth Day still remains.…
In the Know: The Rise in Voter Purge Litigation (Blog) 4/7/2020 We have seen a rise in voter purge litigation over the past few years. State and local Leagues have joined litigation as…
The Voting Rights Act in Action (Blog) 1/13/2020 An in-depth look at how the Voting Rights Act has protected voters of color and language-minority voters—and why we need the Voting Rights…, In the Southeast corner of Utah lies San Juan County, which includes part of the Navajo Nation. Native Americans make up a slight majority of San…
2019 Roundup: Defending Democracy Through Litigation (Blog) 1/3/2020 With more Leagues engaging in litigation and an increased interest in the work we are doing, each year we track as many cases happening across the…
To Avoid Voter Confidence Erosion, Ensure Election Security (Blog) 11/22/2019 This blog post was contributed by LWV of Connecticut president Carol Reimers. Election security is all about voter confidence. If…
At Long Last, Voting Rights Act Restoration to Get a Vote on House Floor (Blog) 11/14/2019 It’s been over 6 years since the U.S. Supreme Court, in their decision of Shelby County v. Holder, gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (…