10 Things You Should Know About Redistricting (Blog) 10/5/2020 Every 10 years, after the collection of the decennial census data, states redraw their state and congressional district lines. These…
The Fight for Fair Maps: In the Trenches and on the Ballot (Blog) 9/17/2020 This blog post was written by Lizzy Ganssle and Samyuktha Mahadevan, campaign organizers for LWVUS., Through the national redistricting reform campaign, People Powered Fair Maps ™, Leagues in all 50 states and Washington,…
In the Know: COVID-19 Voting Litigation (Blog) 8/10/2020 A national overview of the League’s COVID-related voting rights cases In early January, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued the first public…
People Powering the Vote: League Leaders and the fight for the VRAA (Blog) 8/6/2020 Today is August 6th, 2020. It has been 244 days since the Voting Rights Advancement Act passed the U.S. …
People Powered Fair Maps in Action (Blog) 6/24/2020 Nearly one year ago, in September 2019, we launched People Powered Fair MapsTM in response to the disappointing Supreme…
People Powered Fair Maps in Arkansas (Blog) 6/22/2020 This guest blog post was contributed by Bonnie Miller, president of LWV of Arkansas. We’ve all seen the #LoveInTheTimeOfCovid hashtag,…
Juneteenth: A Celebration of Emancipation and Black Liberation (Blog) 6/19/2020 Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States, and just one of several “…, The League’s Work to Expand and Protect the Vote Leagues across the country have acknowledged our complicity in the historic failure of democracy to…
Fighting each day for the America we aspire to be (Blog) 6/18/2020 This guest blog was contributed by Krystina François, member of LWV of Miami-Dade County and Executive Director of the Office of New Americans in…
Standing Up for Voting Rights in 2020: A Plaintiff’s Story (Blog) 6/8/2020 “We have to stop closing doors preventing people from voting and start opening them. It is our right to vote, and…, Knowing all of this, and even having a childhood friend killed by white supremacists celebrating the Birmingham Church bombing, Vivian was…
COVID-19, the Census, and Redistricting (Blog) 5/27/2020 COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the way that the Census conducts operations. Because of this impact, the U.S. Census Bureau has been forced to…