League of Women Voters of Missouri v. State of Missouri (Legal Case) 10/24/2022 LWV Missouri and co-plaintiffs filed a state court lawsuit against HB 1878, which restricted or criminalized several voter registration and education activities
Latina Activist You Should Know: Jamie Sarai Margolin (Blog) 10/6/2022 Most of us know or have heard of the Latino trailblazers like Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Sylva Rivera – but we sometimes forget to highlight the youth activists who are currently fighting for…
LWV Watches Oral Arguments in SCOTUS Racial Vote Dilution Case, Merrill v. Milligan (Press Release) 10/5/2022 LWVUS and LWV of Alabama stood in solidarity with Alabama voters in Merrill v. Milligan as it was heard before the US Supreme Court. Both Leagues had previously submitted an amicus brief in support…
White v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (Legal Case) 10/3/2022 LWV Wisconsin intervened in a state court case on whether election clerks may correct certain errors or omissions on witness certifications for absentee ballots
League of Women Voters and Voting Rights Advocates Notify Georgia of State and Federal Voting Violations (Press Release) 9/29/2022 Lawrenceville, GA – Today the League of Women Voters of Georgia along with other voting rights advocates, notified the Georgia Secretary of State and Gwinnett County that the county has been in…
Fair Maps Texas Action Committee v. Abbott (consolidated as LULAC v. Abbott) (Legal Case) 9/28/2022 Lawsuit challenging Texas’s new legislative and congressional districts as a violation of the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
League of Women Voters plant 19th Amendment garden at courthouse (News Clips) 9/25/2022 This story was originally published in The Herald-Dispatch. Members of the League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area recently established a flower garden at the Cabell County Courthouse.
Letter: Rejecting Ranked Choice bad for Richmond (News Clips) 9/22/2022 This letter to the editor was originally published by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Richmond City Council recently made the short-sighted decision to reject a proposal to adopt Ranked Choice…
Common Cause, League of Women Voters, PIRG, ACLU Applaud Ruling Upholding Timely Election Results from Maryland State Board of Elections (Press Release) 9/22/2022 Today, Montgomery County Judge Bonifant ruled in favor of a petition put forward by the Maryland State Board of Elections to enable pre-processing of mail-in ballots for the November general…
LWVUS Joins Public Statement of Concerns Related to the Impact of Police Funding Bills in the Wake of Dobbs (Legal Document) 9/21/2022 The League of Women Voters of the United States joined a public statement urging Congress not to enact laws that expand federal resources for policing, prosecution, and other criminal-legal practices…