LWVUS supports Youth Voting Rights Act (Legal Document) 7/26/2022 The League sent a letter to the US Senate urging them to pass the Youth Voting Rights Act as a measure to support eligible young voters’ access to…
LWVUS Testifies at DISCLOSE Act Hearing (Legal Document) 7/19/2022 The Senate Rules and Administration Committee held a hearing on the DISCLOSE Act and invited the League to testify on why the source of money in…
3 Cases of Redistricting Reform: 2018 vs. Today (Blog) 4/5/2022 Partisan gerrymandering, i.e., designing electoral maps to benefit a particular political party during the redistricting process, goes against the…, Missouri: The Clean Missouri Initiative and Amendment 3 In 2018, voters in Missouri passed the Clean Missouri initiative, a ballot measure…, Bramer and Steiger also voiced concern that Amendment 3 broke with 150 years of precedent by only counting voting-eligible adults as part of the…, Proposal 2 also included several other pro-voter reforms, including automatic and same-day voter registration, as well as no-excuse absentee voting…, Utah: Proposition 4 In 2018, voters in Utah passed Proposition 4, which created a seven-member independent redistricting commission empowered…
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…
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…
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…
5 Issues President Biden Must Address Before Congress (Blog) 4/26/2021 This Wednesday, April 28, President Biden will make his first speech before Congress. His address will take place near the critical 100-day mark of…, It's necessary to the welfare of our democracy that we counter these bills with legislation that expands voting rights rather than limiting them. Two…, The way our maps are drawn impacts our access to healthcare, clean water, and hundreds of other necessities. Yet the process is often threatened by…
LWV Supports the For the People Act in the Senate (Press Release) 3/17/2021 WASHINGTON – Following the passage of HR1, the For the People Act, in the House of Representatives earlier this month, today the US Senate introduced…
20 Ways LWV Empowered Voters and Protected Democracy in 2020 (Blog) 12/10/2020 This year was challenging on many fronts, but 2020 saw many important expansions for our democracy. Never has our work as defenders of democracy been…, 3. Expanding People Powered Fair Maps™ Through People Powered Fair Maps™, Leagues partnered with more than 1,000 organizations,…