League Members to Lobby Congress on Voting Rights (Blog) 6/15/2016 Hundreds of League members from around the country will be lobbying their U.S. Senators and Representatives on Capitol Hill tomorrow in advance of…
What’s Happening in the States? A Voters’ Rights Legislative Round-up (Blog) 5/12/2016 With most state legislative sessions coming to a close at the end of April, the action on voting rights in 2016 is shaping up to be very similar to…
Women in Politics from 1920 to 2016 (Blog) 3/31/2016 With Women’s History Month 2016 wrapping up, League president Elisabeth MacNamara joined with other women’s political and history experts at the…
Designing for Our Democracy – Getting Out the Vote with AIGA (Blog) 3/21/2016 This year we are partnering with AIGA, the professional association for design, for a Get Out the Vote initiative seeking to motivate Americans to…
On the Affordable Care Act’s Anniversary, Another Supreme Court Challenge (Blog) 3/18/2016 Nearly six years ago, on March 23, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the biggest expansion of health care access since the…
Chester County, PA Coalition Working to Register 9,000 Women to Vote (Blog) 3/18/2016 Editorial Note: This guest blog post was written by Susan Carty, president of the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and the League of Women…
Singers and Leagues Urge Concertgoers to “Use Your Voice” by Voting (Blog) 3/8/2016 Here at the League of Women Voters of the United States office, we are lucky to work with dozens of inspiring partners to expand access to the vote…
Take Control - Vote (Blog) 2/29/2016 Millions of Americans are heading to the polls in March to select their preferred presidential candidate. This is an important election year and we’…
League Sues to Stop Documentary Proof-of-Citizenship Requirement on Voter Registration Form (Blog) 2/25/2016 Late last month, the executive director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), Brian Newby, acting unilaterally, approved requests from…
Presidents' Day, Primaries and Parties (Blog) 2/14/2016 Ninety-six years ago during the final push for women's suffrage, Carrie Chapman Catt – the League of Women Voters’ founder – called upon our emerging…