Obama Administration Violating Voting Rights Law (Press Release) 10/27/2015 Voting Rights Groups Urge Immediate Action to Provide Required Registration Services through Federal Health Exchanges WASHINGTON, DC (October 28,…
Screening Suffragette: Differences in Media Coverage of the British and American Suffrage Movements (Blog) 10/26/2015 Members of the League of Women Voters of Georgia were among those who got a sneak peek of the new movie Suffragette, which details the fight for the…
League Urges Congress to Protect Funding for Farm Bill Conservation Programs (Legal Document) 10/19/2015 The League joined with over one hundred other organizations urging Congressional appropriators to protect mandatory funding for farm bill…
League Opposes Senate Attempts to Block Clean Power Plan (Legal Document) 10/15/2015 The League sent a letter to the U.S. Senate opposing any attempt to block the implementation of the Administrations Clean Power Plan. Under the…
North Carolina Leagues Start Conversation with Boards of Elections (Blog) 10/15/2015 This blog post was co-written with Mary Klenz, co-president of the League of Women Voters of North Carolina. In the spring of 2015, the League of…
Make Your Election Day Plan (Blog) 10/13/2015 In many communities, Election Day is less than month away! With presidential debates under way, it may seem like our next important elections aren’t…
Kansas Purge of Voter Suspension List: Plain Wrong (Press Release) 10/2/2015 Washington, D.C. – Today, the state of Kansas begins the process of purging tens of thousands of voters from a suspension list created for otherwise…
League: New Ozone Pollution Standard Good Step, Not Good Enough (Press Release) 10/2/2015 Washington, DC – The League of Women Voters of the United States released the following statement from president Elisabeth MacNamara, regarding the…
Voter Registration Deadlines for Election Day 2015 Are Near (Blog) 9/30/2015 Last week’s National Voter Registration Day was a huge success! Together, over 1,600 organizations, including over 260 state and local Leagues,…
Four More Online Voter Registration Victories (Blog) 9/29/2015 In the past month, four states have taken a step to improve access to the polls. Voters in Pennsylvania and Nebraska can now register to vote online…