Voter ID Bill Draws Criticism (News Clips) 4/11/2012 “Joan Ashwell, election law specialist for the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire, said the voter ID bill ‘discriminates against certain otherwise qualified voters.’”
Voter Photo ID Law Bad for Texas (News Clips) 4/10/2012 “The nonpartisan League of Women Voters agrees with several points in the editorial. LWV also can find no proof of voter fraud which photo ID would prevent and is concerned Texas's suit poses…
Florida. How Soon We Forget. (News Clips) 4/9/2012 “Last spring, Florida made some changes to its election law. Cloaked as technical tweaks, the new laws have the potential to swing the 2012 election.”
[MN] Voters to Decide Whether to Require IDs at Polls (News Clips) 4/5/2012 “Voters will decide in November whether government-issued photo identification should be required when voting in Minnesota, after lawmakers approved the ballot measure Wednesday and ended a years-…
Think You Have the Right to Vote? Not so Much! (News Clips) 4/3/2012 “...people in the social sector are starting to work together in more and better ways – the good people at Brennan Center..., League of Women Voters, Rock the Vote, and Voto Latino have been very…
MN Voter ID Deal Clears the Way to Fall Ballot (News Clips) 4/3/2012 “A controversial constitutional amendment that would require voters to show a photo identification at the polls has cleared one of the last hurdles on the way to the fall ballot” in Minnesota.
Texas Tries to Keep Voter ID Debate Secret (News Clips) 4/2/2012 “The state of Texas wants the discussions their Republican legislators had about passing a voter ID law to stay secret.”
Time is now for disclosure: Why the League supports the DISCLOSE Act (Blog) 3/29/2012 Today, a Senate Committee will consider whether we need disclosure of who is spending vast amounts of money in American elections. We are deeply concerned about election financing.
League President's statement on the DISCLOSE Act of 2012, S. 2219 (Legal Document) 3/28/2012 The following statement Statement by Elisabeth MacNamara, President League of Women Voters of the United States on The DISCLOSE Act of 2012, S. 2219 was read for the Senate Rules Committee on March…
Voter ID Lawsuits Sent Directly to [WI] State Supreme Court (News Clips) 3/28/2012 Appeals courts sent two lawsuits challenging Wisconsin's blocked new voter ID law directly to the state Supreme Court on Wednesday because of next week’s important elections, including the state…