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Increasing Voter Registration

As the nation’s largest and longest-standing grassroots voter registration organization, we work year-round to make sure all eligible Americans—especially first-time voters, non-college youth, new citizens, communities of color, and low-income Americans—have the opportunity to register and vote. 

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Why it matters

Every eligible voter should have a fair and equal opportunity to register to vote and to cast their ballot. Millions of Americans miss the opportunity to vote because they don’t know how to register or they miss their state’s deadline to register.  

What we're doing

Our volunteers register hundreds of thousands of voters and host community voter registration drives across the country each year. We concentrate our registration drives at locations that reach large numbers of unregistered voters, including high schools and community colleges, transit hubs and naturalization ceremonies. Each year, we also help tens of thousands of Americans register online at VOTE411.org. 

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Increasing Voter Registration In Depth

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Notes from the Field: Student Walkouts and Marches

Our volunteers have been out in force, working with passionate students to register new voters at their school walkouts, marches, and other events across the country. 

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Leagues Volunteers Visit 450 Citizenship Ceremonies, Register 25,000 to Vote in 2017

A fixture in the voter engagement field for over 90 years, the League of Women Voters works to register and turn out new communities of voters, with the long-term aim of expanding the American electorate and ensuring a democracy that reflects the true diversity of our communities.

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Boston Herald: Election activists push for auto registration

The League supports automatic voter registration. In Massachusetts, League Executive Director Meryl Kessler calls it, “the next logical step in the modernization of the electoral process”.

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The Union Edge (Radio): National Voter Registration Day is September 26th!

Maggie Bush, the Program and Outreach Director from the League of Women Voters talks to the Union Edge about National Voter Registration Day, which is coming up on September 26.

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Three Reasons to Celebrate National Voter Registration Day
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On the 97th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we are STILL Fighting for Equal Voting Rights
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League Volunteers Registered Tens of Thousands of New Citizens to Vote in 2016

Each year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants complete the naturalization application process and take part in swearing-in ceremonies—also known as naturalization ceremonies—in cities and counties

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Leagues to Host 400 Voter Registration Events Tuesday, 9/27

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                 September 26, 2016 

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High School Voter Registration

The High School Voter Registration Project is a nationwide effort to encourage young people--especially young minorities--to register to vote.