League of Women Voters of West Virginia Launches Campaign to Pass the For the People Act

CHARLESTON, WV – With the Senate set to vote on the For the People Act (S1) in late June, this week the League of Women Voters of West Virginia and the League of Women Voters of the United States launched a campaign to promote the bill’s passage. On Sunday, June 20th, the League placed full-page ads in the Charleston Gazette-Mail and the Huntington-Herald Dispatch, alongside digital ads on the publications’ respective homepages, urging West Virginia senators to vote for the For the People Act. 

"It is clear that the pro-voter policies put forward by S1 are supported by the majority of West Virginians,” said Euphemia Kallas, co-President of the League of Women Voters of West Virginia. “We are hopeful that this campaign will inspire people to reach out to Senators Manchin and Capito to demand that they vote ‘yes’ on this essential bill.” 

The For the People Act passed in the US House on March 3, 2021, and now awaits a Senate vote. The bill, which aims to make the promise of democracy real for all Americans by securing the right to vote, increasing government transparency and accountability, and eliminating dark money from elections, is widely supported by the American public.  

In West Virginia, it has a bipartisan approval rating of 79 percent. 

The US Senate is expected to vote on the bill within the next week. 

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