LWVUS Urges Congress to Fund 2020 Census (Article) 12/17/2019 The League joined the Census Project and other national and state organizations calling for full funding of the 2020 Census in the FY20…
AP: Federal lawsuit seeks to stop Wisconsin voter purge (News Clips) 12/17/2019 This story was originally published by the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The fight over purging more than 200,000 voters registered in…
Washington Post: Georgia purged 309,000 voters from its rolls. It’s the second state to make cuts in less than a week. (News Clips) 12/17/2019 This story was originally published by the Washington Post. Overnight, the number of registered voters in Georgia shrank by more than 300,000 in a…
Celebrating International Human Rights Day (Blog) 12/10/2019 This blog post was written by LWVUS's Chief Observer to the United Nations, Rosalee Keech. December 10, 1948 saw the adoption of the …
League of Women Voters Praises U.S. House Passage of the Voting Rights Advancement Act (Press Release) 12/6/2019 The Senate must pass the VRAA to restore full Voting Rights Act before 2020 WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. House of Representatives…
League Urges Congress to Vote Yes for H.R. 4, Voting Rights Advancement Act (Article) 12/4/2019 The League joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights on a letter sent to the U.S. House of Representatives in favor of final passage…
Spring 2020 Evaluation and Outcomes Intern (Article) 12/3/2019 Organizational Background The League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) is a nonpartisan, community-based membership organization…
AP: New Hampshire voting law on trial, just weeks before primary (News Clips) 12/3/2019 This story was originally published by the Associated Press. MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Ten weeks before New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation…
League Joins Amicus in June Medical Services, LLC v. Gee (Legal Document) 12/2/2019 The League joined the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and a dozen other prominent…
100 Years in the Making: One Step Closer to the ERA (Blog) 11/26/2019 Every time I walk to the kitchen in our office, I pass a door adorned with the Suffragette flag and the words, “Mr. President, how long must women…