League Joins Letter Regarding FEC appointments (Legal Document) 1/13/2020 LWVUS joined a letter sent to the White House and staff of Senators McConnell, Blunt, Schumer and Klobuchar asking them to make appointments to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Arizona Voting Rights Advocates Win Settlement Improving Statewide Access to Voter Registration (Press Release) 1/6/2020 Voting rights advocates celebrated an agreement requiring the State of Arizona to provide more effective voter registration services.
2019 Roundup: Defending Democracy Through Litigation (Blog) 1/3/2020 Throughout 2019 the League defended democracy in the courts on issues relating to voting rights, redistricting, money in politics, and improving elections.
AP: New Hampshire voting law on trial, just weeks before primary (News Clips) 12/3/2019 LWV of New Hampshire is challenging a state law that imposes burdensome requirements on voter registration.
Fulcrum: Over 500 locations in one National Voter Registration Day drive (News Clips) 9/20/2019 The League of Women Voters will hold more than 500 voter registration events on September 24 for National Voter Registration Day.
Washington Post: Judge blocks Tennessee law restricting voter registration drives (News Clips) 9/12/2019 In a suit brought by LWV of Tennessee and partners, a federal judge blocked a new Tennessee law that sought to restrict paid voter registration drives.
The Hill: This Women's Equality Day, stop romanticizing the 19th Amendment (News Clips) 8/26/2019 Opinion piece from LWV CEO Virginia Kase on what it means to celebrate the passage of the 19th Amendment 99 years later.
Leagues register over 20,000 new youth voters (Blog) 7/19/2019 June marked the end of our 2019 High School Voter Registration project. With a record-breaking 60 Leagues participating, volunteers registered a total of 20,115 high school student in 28 states…
The Right of Citizenship (Blog) 6/7/2019 It’s important we remember the struggles so many go through to become what so many are just born into, so that none of us take the right of citizenship—and all the responsibility that entails—for…
Washington Post: How a large-scale effort to register black voters led to a crackdown in Tennessee (News Clips) 5/24/2019 Last year, an army of paid workers with stacks of voter registration forms fanned out in Memphis, Nashville and other parts of Tennessee to persuade African Americans to vote. In response, the…