Voting Rights Act: Remember, Celebrate and Protect (Blog) 8/6/2012 Editorial Note: This piece was first published on my Huffington Post Blog earlier today. Forty-seven years ago this week, President Lyndon B.…
Support for the DISCLOSE Act across the country (Blog) 7/13/2012 On Monday, the DISCLOSE Act will come to the floor of the U.S. Senate. We’ve been working hard to ensure that it overcomes the procedural…
Supreme Court Repeats Naïve, Uninformed Errors of Citizens United (Blog) 6/25/2012 The Court's decision today in a pivotal campaign finance case has repeated its naïve, uninformed errors from its Citizens United decision. The…
Twitter’s take on Attorney General Holder visiting LWV’s Convention (Blog) 6/14/2012 On Monday, June 11, Attorney General Eric Holder addressed our National Convention.Throughout Convention, we invited attendees to participate in an…
Reflections from a Poll Observer (Blog) 6/8/2012 As I wrote earlier this week, I was in Wisconsin on Tuesday to observe the recall election. It was a long day, but very exciting to bear witness to…
Money in Elections – What the League is Doing (Blog) 5/3/2012 We are all aware that the huge amount of special interest money, particularly in federal races, has been a problem for years. We also know that these…
Time is now for disclosure: Why the League supports the DISCLOSE Act (Blog) 3/29/2012 Today, a Senate Committee takes up the issue of money in politics, specifically, whether we need disclosure of who is spending vast amounts of money…
VOTE411.org, Super Tuesday’s go-to resource (Blog) 3/5/2012 As you know, 10 states hold their presidential primary or caucus elections tomorrow. And the League wants you, and your friends and family, to have…
Who Will Elect the President? The Electoral College System (Blog) 8/8/2000 Adapted from a pamphlet published by the League of Women Voters Education Fund in 1980 Every four years, the Electoral College, a little-known…, Supporters argue that the one-person, one-vote principle should not pertain to the Electoral College, just as it does not pertain to the US Senate.…