Hopkins v. Hosemann (now Watson) (Legal Case) 1/23/2024 LWVUS, LWV Mississippi, and 11 other civil rights organizations filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs asserting Mississippi’s permanent felony disenfranchisement law violated the Eighth…
GA State Conference of the NAACP v. Raffensperger (consolidated as In re: Georgia Senate Bill 202) (Legal Case) 1/22/2024 LWV Georgia and partners filed a federal lawsuit challenging SB202, which restricted early voting and ballot drop boxes and criminalized giving water and food to voters waiting in line to vote
Our Chicago: Preparing for 2024 Illinois primary election (News Clips) 1/21/2024 This story originally aired on ABC 7. Nearly 104 years ago, the League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago. It was February 1920, nearly six months before the 19th Amendment was ratified,…
Presidential Candidates Must Answer Voters' Questions (Blog) 1/18/2024 Voters deserve to hear directly from the candidates campaigning to represent us at the highest level. See which candidates have filled out our voter guides and demand the rest follow their example!
LWV Statement on the Three-Year Anniversary of the January 6th Insurrection (Press Release) 1/5/2024 Three years ago, our nation's capital faced an unprecedented threat to our democracy that will be etched in the memory of our nation forever.
Top Ten open government stories of 2023 (part one) (News Clips) 1/3/2024 This story was originally published by Forward Kentucky. On November 29, the League of Women Voters of Kentucky published a study examining “Transparency and Citizen Participation in…
Common Cause v. Raffensperger (Legal Case) 12/28/2023 LWV Georgia filed a federal lawsuit asserting three congressional districts in metropolitan Atlanta were racially gerrymandered
League of Women Voters of Ohio files federal lawsuit over election law (News Clips) 12/22/2023 This story was originally published by Spectrum News. The League of Women Voters Ohio is filing a joint-lawsuit challenging the part of the law that limits who can deliver an absentee ballot to the…
Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Election Mis- and Disinformation (Blog) 12/21/2023 There are countless applications and issues within AI. The League's primary interest is in the potential impacts of AI on our elections. It is part of our world, and it will likely continue to become…
League of Women Voters Statement on Colorado Supreme Court Ruling (Press Release) 12/20/2023 WASHINGTON, DENVER — The League of Women Voters of the US and the League of Women Voters of Colorado issued the following statement in response to the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that former…