50 Years After the Voting Rights Act Became Law, It Needs to be Restored (Blog) 8/6/2015 Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA) into law, calling the day ''a triumph for freedom." The VRA was…
Finding the Elections Information I Craved (Blog) 7/22/2015 Editorial Note: This blog post was written by our intern, Elizabeth Ahrens After the months of endless campaigning during the 2012 presidential…
Meet the League: Cynthia Sebian-Lander (Blog) 7/17/2015 In honor of 95 years of Making Democracy Work®, LWVVUS staff members are sharing stories about their work with the League. Cynthia Sebian-Lander,…
Challenge to the Country’s Most Restrictive Voting Law Heads to Court (Blog) 7/15/2015 In 2013, just six weeks after the United States Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) that ensured certain states were…
Celebrate the 4th of July by Making Democracy Work (Blog) 7/3/2015 Independence Day marks the birth of our nation and the signing of the Declaration of Independence that outlined the key tenets that our Constitution…
Stopping Partisan Gerrymandering and Protecting Independent Redistricting Commissions (Blog) 6/30/2015 Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a big victory for citizen-led democracy. In a 5-4 decision in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona…
Can a Rally Help Restore the Voting Rights Act? (Blog) 6/29/2015 Two years ago, a U.S. Supreme Court decision overturned a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 allowing an outright attack on voting…
Two Years Later-- Tell Congress to Restore the Voting Rights Act (Blog) 6/25/2015 Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA) into law. The VRA was a cornerstone achievement of the civil rights…
2015 State Legislative Update: Pro-Voter Reforms Outpace Attacks on Voting Rights (Blog) 6/10/2015 Over the past 10 years, our country has seen a steady increase in the attacks on voting rights sweep across the states. From reductions in early…
Reminiscing: 22 Years after the National Voter Registration Act (Blog) 5/18/2015 On May 20, 1993, I sat with current and former LWVUS presidents and lobbyists and watched President Bill Clinton as he signed the National Voter…