MI Senate Oks Bills Requiring Photo ID to Register to Vote (News Clips) 2/15/2012 “Critics, including the Michigan League of Women voters, AARP Michigan and the American Civil Liberties Union, said the bills would discourage voter participation.”
Wisconsin Voter ID Law Becomes a Hardship for Colleges and Raises Concerns of a Poll Tax (News Clips) 2/14/2012 “Wisconsin's controversial new voter identification law has the state's colleges scrambling since they provide ID cards that students will be able to use at the polls.”
Florida Women Voters Will Sue over New Congressional Maps (News Clips) 2/13/2012 “The new congressional district maps caused all sorts of shuffling ... today the League of Women Voters announced it will sue to seek to have them redone.”
NM Committee Blocks Bill Requiring Photo ID to Vote (News Clips) 2/8/2012 “A Democrat-controlled committee this afternoon blocked three separate bills to require photo identification to vote.”
Florida Enters Uncertain Battle Over District Lines (News Clips) 2/8/2012 “Florida is supposed to be the Sunshine State, but the outlook is cloudy for the future of the Congressional delegation there.”
Independent Body Must Redraw Lines (News Clips) 2/7/2012 “As a nonpartisan citizen's organization, the League of Women Voters has long supported the appointment of an independent commission for the redistricting process.”
Kentucky Weighs Restoring Voting Rights to Felons (News Clips) 2/6/2012 “Restaurant manager Jason Marvin Smith of Elizabethtown said he accepts full responsibility for a felony that landed him on probation as an 18-year-old ... what riles him is that after completing…
For Martin and Medgar and Viola (News Clips) 2/6/2012 “The fact that a standing-room-only crowd showed up on a Saturday morning to talk about the new voter ID law in Texas was encouraging.”
Groups Hope to Stop Wisconsin ID law (News Clips) 2/6/2012 “Groups that have filed lawsuits include the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, and the Milwaukee branch of the NAACP. Attorneys aren't consolidating the…
Here's a State Law that Needs No Fixing (News Clips) 2/2/2012 “The League of Women Voters of New Hampshire opposes HB 1354. Our current definition of "domicile," which is also used in other states, makes it clear that living here for voting purposes…