Leagues Host 350 High School, Community College Voter Registration Drives (Blog) 8/8/2016 We’ve crunched the numbers: League volunteers in 25 communities registered nearly 15,000 high school and community college students to vote this past…
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…
League Urges Congress Repair Voting Rights Act (Legal Document) 6/14/2016 The League sent a letter to members of the U.S. House and Senate urging them to move the Voting Rights Advancement Act forward. The legislation…
League Volunteers, Grammy Winners Reach Tens of Thousands of Voters (Blog) 6/2/2016 The League team is taking a moment to reflect on this spring’s “Use Your Voice” tour, carried out by Grammy award-winning artists Patty Griffin and…
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…
Help Us Recognize a Local League that Effectively Engaged their Community (Blog) 4/15/2016 We’ll be presenting three Making Democracy Work® - For All awards at our National Convention, held in Washington, DC later this spring. The awards…
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…
5 Tips to Get the Most Out of the State of the Union Speech (Blog) 1/7/2016 Next Tuesday, on January 12 at 9 pm Eastern, President Barack Obama will deliver his final State of the Union (SOTU) speech. The annual speech…
League Volunteers on Track to Register Voters in 200 Schools This Spring (Blog) 1/6/2016 It’s officially 2016, which means the League’s 2016 Youth Voter Registration Project has officially kicked off! With millions of young voters…