Honoring and Celebrating the Passage of the Voting Rights Act (Blog) 8/6/2012 Forty-seven years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the historic Voting Rights Act (VRA) into law.
Voting Never Gets Old for these Centenarians (News Clips) 8/3/2012 “Ida Silverstein, a volunteer at Seven Acres for the past 15 years, helps residents vote, although she hastens to add that she cannot advise them how to vote or tell them how she plans to vote. ...…
League of Women Voters of Washington Launches VOTE411.org (News Clips) 7/31/2012 “As Primary Election ballots hit mailboxes, The League of Women Voters of Washington announced the launch of the nonpartisan election resource VOTE411.org. ... Nationally, the League of Women Voters…
Vt. Secretary of State Touts Voter Registration (News Clips) 7/31/2012 “Condos says that in Vermont, he'll be working with the League of Women Voters and other groups to encourage registration and voting.”
League of Women Voters to Conduct Youth Voter Registration (News Clips) 7/31/2012 "The League of Women Voters of South Bend [IN] will conduct a voter registration, but with a twist. It's for students who are taking summer government and economics classes at Adams High…
New Voters Register at [NJ] Schools for the Fall Election (News Clips) 7/26/2012 “A record number of 95 students at Montville and Boonton High Schools [NJ] received an extra civics lesson this March and June when they registered to vote at their schools.”
Early Gets Voting Under Way for July 31 [TX] Run-Off (News Clips) 7/24/2012 "Riley Morgan of Brownsville, who is organizing a League of Women Voters in the Rio Grande Valley [TX], noted that the organization's Education Fund has launched the internet-based Vote411.…
[PA] League of Women Voters Spreading Voter ID Info (News Clips) 7/24/2012 “The League of Women Voters is trying to make sure voters in Lancaster County [PA] are aware of the state's new identification law. About 20,000 voters in the county do not have the…
Focusing Outrage on the [PA] Voter ID Law (News Clips) 7/24/2012 “...a coalition of [PA] organizations and businesses - the ACLU, NAACP, League of Women Voters, Committee of Seventy, Black Clergy, Brown's Family ShopRite, and Radio One, among others - secured…
League of Women Voters Register [NJ] Union High School Students to Vote (News Clips) 7/23/2012 “Joan Azzarello and Sydelle Hirsch of the League of Women Voters of the Union area [NJ] visited Union High School in June and registered more than 40 high school students to vote in the general…