Cheryl Dunson, President of the League of Women Voters of Connecticut, shares how her League helped pass safer gun laws in its state legislature.
EDITORIAL NOTE: This blog post was originally published on the The Huffington Post.
Each state has focused some of their energy on voting rights and elections – 2230 bills relating to elections, both good and bad, have been introduced in state legislatures across the country since January.
Through our trip to London, we have successfully passed the baton on this important project. The UK and Egyptian teams will soon be making the final decision about their nongovernmental partners.
For the first time in 4 years the U.S. Senate is expected to pass a federal budget. Tell your Senators to keep the budget clean of bad environmental amendments that could destroy our climate and harm public health.
A decision against the NVRA, which streamlined the many state laws that hindered citizen-led registration drives, would leave the mission of the League of Women Voters in jeopardy and make the voter registration process vulnerable to new forms of political manipulation.
When the League powered the vote for the 2012 Election, we reminded voters that ‘your vote is your voice.’ This week we honor Sunshine Week 2013, a nationwide effort to open up dialogue on the importance of transparency in government and freedom of information.
