LWVUS joins DFAD Coalition Urging Senate to Pass Freedom to Vote Act (Legal Document) 10/14/2021 Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Chairwoman Klobuchar, and Senators Kaine, King, Manchin, Merkley, Padilla, Tester, and Warnock: We, the…
Dear Joe: It's Not Us, It's You (Blog) 10/4/2021 Hey President Biden. It’s us, the American voters. We know you have a lot going on — a deadly global pandemic, the climate change crisis, a…
Senate Introduces the Freedom to Vote Act (Blog) 9/17/2021 This week, the US Senate introduced new legislation that protects and expands the right to vote, decreases the influence of money in politics, and…
LWVUS Submits Statement for the Record to the US House Judiciary Committee regarding the VRAA (Legal Document) 8/16/2021 LWVUS submitted a statement to the US House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Oversight of the Voting Rights Act: Potential Legislative…
Texas Voters Win as Motor Voter Lawsuit Is Settled (Press Release) 8/3/2021 Over 1 Million Texans Have Already Registered To Vote Online Since September 2020, When This Suit Forced The State To Comply With National Voter…
PRESS HERALD: While Some States Restrict Voting, Maine Lawmakers Pass Bills to Expand Access (Article) 7/8/2021 This story was originally published by Press Herald. During a year of pitched partisan battles elsewhere over voter rights and election…
Ask Us Anything: The Best of Our Reddit Conversations! (Blog) 6/14/2021 Our politics should be run by and for the people, not politicians or wealthy corporations – which is why one of our favorite things to do is support…
League Joins Call to Support the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (Legal Document) 6/8/2021 The League joined a letter led by the Leadership Conference in support of two critical pieces of legislation needed to protect the freedom to…
The League's Impact on the 2020 Election (Blog) 5/21/2021 A screenwriter couldn't have plotted it better: in the League's 100th year of existence, in the midst of a deeply contentious federal election,…
Redistricting Watch: I Will Fight for Fair Maps Because I Care About Voting Rights (Blog) 4/28/2021 This blog was written by Debra Cronmiller, Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin In the past decade, Wisconsin…, To that end, we opposed the recent bills introduced in our Legislature that actively work to suppress the vote. How does this relate to our fight for…, These aren’t the end of the bill’s restrictive measures; some of the proposed bills treat military voters differently than overseas voters, which…