Take the Challenge - Help Get 3 Friends Registered to Vote (Blog) 9/13/2012 We need your help to reach as many eligible voters as possible. Join our registration challenge by sending our e-card to 3 friends and encouraging them to register to vote.
Voting Mission (News Clips) 9/11/2012 “If you’ve been out and about at a community event lately — the Busker Fest, the Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships or maybe just visiting the Lawrence Public Library — you probably…
Goal for 103-Year-Old Betty Lockett: Register 103 Voters (News Clips) 9/11/2012 “Betty Lockett had one wish for her 103rd birthday Monday. ‘For my birthday present I asked to have 103 people register to vote,’ said Lockett, a widowed Hammond centenarian, retired nurse and…
Lewisburg [PA] League Helping Elderly, Others Prepare to Vote (News Clips) 9/11/2012 “The November elections are less than two months away, and Pennsylvania has a new voter identification law... That worries the League of Women Voters of the Lewisburg Area. ... “I have a concern…
New Citizens Eager to Cast Ballots (News Clips) 9/11/2012 “There was something fresh, pure and distinctly American about the immigrants lining up behind the League of Women Voters table to register to vote for the first time. Moments earlier in the grand…
Testimony by ELISABETH MACNAMARA, LWVUS PRESIDENT FOR THE U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY (Legal Document) 9/11/2012 On Wednesday, September 12, LWVUS President Elisabeth Macnamra testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary at a hearing entitled "The Citizens United Court and the Continuing…
Proud New US Citizens (News Clips) 9/7/2012 “The desire to vote, especially in a hotly contested presidential election, is propelling the number of new U.S. citizens in Minnesota to record levels. ... About 1,500 people were sworn in as new…
Who Pays for the Parties? (Blog) 9/6/2012 Editorial Note: This piece was first published as part of the Huffington Post's Shadow Convention discussion on money in politics and on my Huffington Post blog.
A Fight for Fair Courts (News Clips) 9/4/2012 "After recent Supreme Court rulings, are states foreclosed from using a public financing system just for judicial elections?"
616,000 Who Could Vote Aren't Registered (News Clips) 9/4/2012 “New Mexico has about 1.2 million registered voters. More than 616,000 others are eligible to vote but are not registered. ... Representatives of three nonpartisan groups today outlined their…