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Due to the pandemic, more people will be voting by mail this year than in any previous election. The New York Times found that this year it is estimated that over 80 million…
A national overview of the League’s COVID-related voting rights cases
In early January, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued the first public health…
Today is August 6th, 2020. It has been 244 days since the Voting Rights Advancement Act passed the U.S. House, 7 years and 1 month since the Shelby v. Holder decision, and…
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States, and just one of several “Emancipation Days” observed by Black…
“We have to stop closing doors preventing people from voting and start opening them. It is our right to vote, and we should have access to that right.”
We have seen a rise in voter purge litigation over the past few years. State and local Leagues have joined litigation as defendant-intervenors in response to dangerous and …
An in-depth look at how the Voting Rights Act has protected voters of color and language-minority voters—and why we need the Voting Rights Advancement Act:A conversation…
With more Leagues engaging in litigation and an increased interest in the work we are doing, each year we track as many cases happening across the country as possible. The…
This blog post was contributed by LWV of Connecticut president Carol Reimers.
Election security is all about voter confidence. If voters lose that confidence, if they…
It’s been over 6 years since the U.S. Supreme Court, in their decision of Shelby County v. Holder, gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). The decision by the…