League of Women Voters of NYS Reacts to Failure to Pass Comprehensive Campaign Finance Reform in Budget (News Clips) 4/3/2014 "This budget agreement omits fundamental and long-sought reforms," says LWV.
Florida will not Move Forward with Another Voter Purge (News Clips) 4/3/2014 Less than two years after the failed voter purge of 2012 and only seven months shy of the upcoming state election of 2014, the state of Florida has decided not to go ahead with another planned purg
Voter Rights Groups Appeal Documentation Ruling (News Clips) 3/31/2014 Voting rights groups filed an appeal Friday of a judge's order that federal election officials must help Kansas and Arizona enforce state laws requiring new voters to provide documentation pro
Sunshine Week Celebrates Right to Know (News Clips) 3/28/2014 To the editor: Launched in 2005, Sunshine Week has grown into an annual national initiative to promote open government and push back against excessive official secrecy.
Spring Election Hurtling Toward Us; Are You Informed? (News Clips) 3/28/2014 The first Tuesday in April comes early this year. It falls on April 1, meaning we're less than two weeks away from the annual spring elections. Are you prepared to vote?
Join League of Women Voters in Honoring Sunshine Week (News Clips) 3/28/2014 March 17-23 is Sunshine Week, an annual nationwide effort to call attention to transparency in government and freedom of information.
California Health Exchange Slow to Offer Voter Registration (News Clips) 3/26/2014 Supporters of the new national health care law portray California's exchange as among the most successful at signing up residents for medical coverage.
Facing Lawsuit, Covered California Ramps up Voter Help (News Clips) 3/24/2014 Facing a deadline of early next week for a voting rights lawsuit in federal court, California's health insurance exchange appears to have agreed to send out almost 4 million voter registration
Where are the Female Candidates? (News Clips) 3/24/2014 Kohout began participating with the League of Women Voters of Door County on the “Observer Corps,” where a person sits in on various County Board and committee meetings and simply watches and liste
Forum: League of Women Voters celebrates Sunshine Week (News Clips) 3/24/2014 We all have the right to know what our government is doing, both its successes and failures. Exercising our right to know gives us, the public, power.