Everything You Need to Know About Electing the President (Blog) 9/23/2015 It may not even be Election Day 2015, but we all know that the battle for the White House in 2016 is already well underway. With presidential…
Help Us Celebrate National Voter Registration Day (Blog) 9/22/2015 Happy National Voter Registration Day! Today, for the fourth straight year, thousands of organizations across the country are celebrating National…
Getting Ready to Vote on Election Day 2015 (Blog) 9/16/2015 You wouldn’t know there were some important and noteworthy elections this year – 2015 – by watching, reading or listening to the news. The media has…
Kansas League Testifies Against Harsh Voter Registration Rules (Blog) 9/14/2015 In the region of the country that saw the creation of the national League of Women Voters 95 years ago, the struggle to ensure the right to vote for…
Fair Districts Equal Fair Elections: LWV Ohio Shows how Gerrymandering Took the “Swing” Out of Swing State (Blog) 9/3/2015 EDITORIAL NOTE: This guest blog post was written by Carrie Davis, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio Ohio is widely considered…
How Are You Celebrating National Voter Registration Day? (Blog) 8/28/2015 National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) is coming! More than 225 League of Women Voters affiliates around the country have signed on to hit the…
Celebrate Women's Equality Day with our Fun Quiz (Blog) 8/26/2015 Ninety-five years ago today, women finally won the right to vote with the certification of the 19th Amendment! It took just over a year after…
15 Years of Making Democracy Work (Blog) 8/24/2015 For all of 2015, we’ve been celebrating the 95th anniversary of the League of Women Voters. When Carrie Chapman Catt founded the League, she charged…
95 Years after the 19th Amendment – The Fight for Equality and Voting Rights Continue (Blog) 8/21/2015 EDITORIAL NOTE: This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post. Ninety-five years ago, after tireless work by generations of advocates, the…
95 Years Ago: A Final Step Towards the 19th Amendment and Women’s Right to Vote (Blog) 8/18/2015 In 1920, a single vote in the Tennessee legislature guaranteed that the 19th Amendment, securing women the right to vote would, at last, become law.…