Get Ready to Take Control on Election Day (Blog) 10/29/2015 When I joined the League of Women Voters as executive director just a few short weeks ago, it was in the midst of yet another busy and important…
Letter to President Obama on Failure to Provide Voter Registration Through Federally-Facilitated Health Care Exchanges (Article) 10/27/2015 October 28, 2015 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW …
Screening Suffragette: Differences in Media Coverage of the British and American Suffrage Movements (Blog) 10/26/2015 Members of the League of Women Voters of Georgia were among those who got a sneak peek of the new movie Suffragette, which details the fight for the…
League Urges Congress to Protect Funding for Farm Bill Conservation Programs (Legal Document) 10/19/2015 The League joined with over one hundred other organizations urging Congressional appropriators to protect mandatory funding for farm bill…
Make Your Election Day Plan (Blog) 10/13/2015 In many communities, Election Day is less than month away! With presidential debates under way, it may seem like our next important elections aren’t…
League Urges IRS to Adopt New 501 (c)(4) Regulations (Article) 9/10/2015 September 9, 2015 John Koskinen Commissioner Internal Revenue Service 1111 Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20224 Re: Standards for tax…
Fair Districts Equal Fair Elections: LWV Ohio Shows how Gerrymandering Took the “Swing” Out of Swing State (Blog) 9/3/2015 EDITORIAL NOTE: This guest blog post was written by Carrie Davis, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio Ohio is widely considered…
15 Years of Making Democracy Work (Blog) 8/24/2015 For all of 2015, we’ve been celebrating the 95th anniversary of the League of Women Voters. When Carrie Chapman Catt founded the League, she charged…
95 Years Ago: A Final Step Towards the 19th Amendment and Women’s Right to Vote (Blog) 8/18/2015 In 1920, a single vote in the Tennessee legislature guaranteed that the 19th Amendment, securing women the right to vote would, at last, become law.…
League of Women Voters of Oklahoma Helps Bring State into Compliance with the National Voter Registration Act (Blog) 8/13/2015 EDITORIAL NOTE: This guest blog post was written by Sheila Swearingen, president of the League of Women Voters of Oklahoma At the end of July, the…