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LWV Of Flint Area

Community Leaders

Janet Watz, President
Kathleen Watchorn, Vice President
Joan Snyder, Vice President
Debbie Fish, Membership Chair

League ID

MI303

Phone

(810) 962-6434

Stories from Around the State

Today, a federal judge permitted LWV of Michigan and five local Leagues to intervene in support of the State in Daunt v. Benson, a federal lawsuit concerning voter purges.

A federal judge granted a motion to intervene to the League of Women Voters of Michigan and Detroit in a case which seeks to force the City of Detroit to conduct an aggressive purge of their voter registration rolls.

Today a panel of federal district judges ruled in favor of the League of Women Voters of Michigan in their First and Fourteenth Amendment challenges to the state and congressional redistricting plans. 

Federal judges ordered the state of Michigan to draw new legislative districts on Thursday, after finding that a gerrymandered plan enacted by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature in 2011 constituted an “extremely grave” constitutional violation.

The League of Women Voters national president Chris Carson issued the following statement on the passing of Congressman John Dingell.