Voting Rights Groups Sue To Stop Voter Suppression Bill in Georgia (Press Release) 3/29/2021 SB 202 limits early voting, absentee voting, and ballot drop boxes, adds fines for groups helping absentee voters ATLANTA—Late last night, the…
Virginia Kase Statement for Senate Rule Committee Hearing on S1, the "For the People Act" (Press Release) 3/24/2021 Senate Committee on Rules and Administration Hearing on S1, the “For the People Act of 2021” March 24, 2021 Chairwoman Klobuchar, Ranking Member…
LWVUS and LWVGA Condemn Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (Press Release) 3/18/2021 WASHINGTON – Today the League of Women Voters of the United States and the League of Women Voters of Georgia issued the following statement in…
LWV Supports the For the People Act in the Senate (Press Release) 3/17/2021 WASHINGTON – Following the passage of HR1, the For the People Act, in the House of Representatives earlier this month, today the US Senate introduced…
LWVUS Letter to Congress re ERA ratification (Legal Document) 3/11/2021 For over fifty years the League has fought for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as part of our mission to secure equal…
The Formerly-Convicted Should Get to Vote. Here’s How the Senate Can Make it Happen. (Blog) 3/11/2021 This blog post was written in partnership with Stand Up America. With the For the People Act passing in the House earlier this month, it’s now…, Just like with gerrymandering, felony disenfranchisement laws allow partisan minorities to maintain their majority legislative power on the local,…
LWV Statement on Voting Rights Executive Order (Press Release) 3/8/2021 WASHINGTON—Today the League of Women Voters of the United States CEO Virginia Kase issued the following statement following President Biden’s…
HUFFINGTON POST: Kentucky May Soon Restore Voting Rights To 200,000 People With Felony Records (News Clips) 3/6/2021 This story was originally published by the Huffington Post. For most of 2020, Savvy Shabazz traversed the state of Kentucky to help register…
League Celebrates House Passage of the For the People Act, HR1 (Press Release) 3/4/2021 WASHINGTON – Today the League of Women Voters of the United States CEO Virginia Kase issued the following statement in response to the…
Celebrating Black Women Who Helped Pave the Way for More Black Women in Politics (Blog) 2/25/2021 Last month’s historic inauguration of the first Black, South Asian, and female vice president of the United States is a milestone in American history…