Last Minute Election Changes and Voter Education in Wisconsin (Blog) 10/8/2014 UPDATE: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that voters will not need to show voter ID for the elections this year. Since 2011, Wisconsin has been one…
Victory for Voters: Judge Rules to Restore Early Voting in Ohio! (Blog) 9/5/2014 Update 9/29: The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the earlier ruling discussed below, thereby limiting early voting options in Ohio for the 2014…
Setback in North Carolina on Suppressive Voting Law; Fight Continues (Blog) 8/20/2014 Earlier this month, a federal judge denied a preliminary injunction barring North Carolina’s new restrictive elections law. The League of Women…
How Early League Action Stopped Implementation of Wisconsin’s Voter Photo ID Law (Blog) 8/7/2014 Partners’ actions keep voter photo ID off the books for August primary EDITORIAL NOTE: This guest blog post was written by Andrea Kaminski, Executive…
Why We Must Revitalize the Voting Rights Act Upon Its 49th Anniversary (Blog) 8/1/2014 EDITORIAL NOTE: This blog post was originally posted on President Elisabeth MacNamara's Huffington Post blog. Next week marks the 49th…
Protecting Voters, Restoring Democracy (Blog) 7/28/2014 Editorial Note: This blog post was written by the League's summer interns, Lily Klein-Evans, Claudia Maisch and Hana Migliorato Earlier this month,…
How the League Helps Ensure Voting Access for Americans with Disabilities (Blog) 7/25/2014 This weekend marks 24 years since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the landmark civil rights law that prohibits…
Visiting the Hill – Keeping the Pressure On to Pass the Voting Rights Amendment Act (Blog) 7/17/2014 This week, the League attended a special meeting on Capitol Hill conducted by Senators Mark Begich and Harry Reid concerning voting rights. We were…
Making Voting as Easy as 1-2-3 in Ohio & Beyond! (Blog) 7/11/2014 Great news: A federal court recently ruled to make it easier to vote in Ohio! And it gets better – the League of Women Voters of Ohio (LWVOH) is…
UPDATE: Voting Rights Moving Forward! (Blog) 6/25/2014 There’s finally some good news on the voting rights front in Congress. Today, on the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision that gutted…