League of Women Voters and American Booksellers Association Partner to Get Out the Vote through Independent Bookstores (Press Release) 6/11/2024 Harrison, NY — Today, the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and League of Women Voters (LWV) announced a new partnership to educate and empower…
League of Women Voters and American Booksellers Association Partner to Get Out the Vote through Independent Bookstores (News Clips) 6/11/2024 This story was originally published in the EinPresswire on June 11, 2024.Harrison, NY — Today, the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and League…
Kansas Constitution does not include a right to vote, state Supreme Court majority says (News Clips) 5/31/2024 This story was originally published in the Associated Press on 5/31/24.The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined…
LWVUS Joins Comments Supporting Census Bureau Testing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Measures on the American Community Survey (ACS) (Legal Document) 5/30/2024 The League of Women Voters of the United States joined public comments to the US Census Bureau supporting them conducting a test of sexual…
LWVUS Opposes SAVE Act (Legal Document) 5/16/2024 LWVUS joined coalition partners to oppose the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require citizenship documentation to cast…
Representing Middle Eastern and North African Citizens in the Census (Blog) 5/15/2024 In 2020, when it was time for my family to fill out the Census, we could only check one box in the race category: white. My family is Libyan-American…, The History of Arabs, Asians, and Proximity to Whiteness The history of Arab Americans' identity advocacy began in the early twentieth century…, In response, Shishim appealed to Judge George Hutton on account of his Christian identity,arguing, “If I am a Mongolian, then so was Jesus, because…, One important way to remedy this issue is to include a Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) ethnic category on the decennial census. Since the…, New OMB Standards are Published to Include MENA At the end of March 2024, the OMB announced that new federal standards for collecting data…, As the undercount of MENA-identifying Americans went on, it became clear to Arabs and advocates that the lack of data about their communities was…
VICTORY: Judge Permanently Blocks Part of Florida’s Restrictive Voting Law Targeting Nonpartisan Florida Voter Registration Groups (Press Release) 5/15/2024 Today, a federal judge permanently blocked a severely restrictive provision of Florida’s anti-voter law, SB7050, that targeted nonpartisan civic…