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LWV Of Kalamazoo Area

Community Leaders

Barb Dircks, Co-President
Christine Kuthe, Co-President
Frances Eckenrode, Vice President
Denise Hartsough, Vice President
Jennifer Snyder, Membership Chair

League ID

MI318

Phone

(269) 544-0303

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.