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League joins ACLU, DEMOS in submitting Comments to CMS

The League joined the ACLU and Demos on a federal register notice from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The request concerns a Paperwork Reduction Act notice regarding the healthcare.gov application process and voter registration. This work is done under Executive Order 14019 Promoting Access to Voting.

The comments cover the support that the three organizations have around expanding the National Voter Registration Act to cover inclusion of a voter registration form on the healthcare application through the federal exchange. The League, ACLU, and Demos have long advocated for inclusion of such a question and detail how the question would give millions of eligible Americans in underserved communities access to voter registration. 

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Meet Alice Upshaw Hawkins, first Black leader of League of Women Voters of Corpus Christi

This profile was originally published in the Corpus Christi Caller Times.

Upshaw Hawkins is the first Black president of the Corpus Christi chapter of the nonpartisan grassroots organization dedicated to advocating for voting rights across the country, founded more than 100 years ago by the suffragists who helped win women the right to vote.

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