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Disability Rights Wisconsin v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (absentee voting for voters with disabilities) (Legal Case)

LWVWI filed suit to prohibit the enforcement of state statutes that blocked voters with disabilities from receiving, marking, and returning their absentee ballot electronically

At Selma event, panel urges Alabama to expand voting rights for people with criminal histories (News Clips)

This was originally published in the Alabama Reflector.LWVUS staff member Chelsey Cartwright spoke at a panel in Selma, AL, on expanding voting rights for people with criminal histories. 

League of Women Voters Responds to President’s Address to Congress (Press Release)

League of Women Voters of the US CEO Celina Stewart issued a statement in response to the President’s March 4 address to Congress.  

Women of the Civil Rights Movement (Blog)

While the contributions of men in the Civil Rights Movement have been widely documented, women’s contributions are often overlooked. Figures like Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Diane Nash, and Gloria…

America First Policy Institute v. Biden (Legal Case)

LWVUS intervened in a case on President Biden's Executive Order 14019, which instructed agencies to expand voter registration

How DEI Impacts Us — And Democracy (Blog)

With attacks from the recent administration, DEI has been a hot topic recently. In a recent blog, I broke down what DEI really is — and isn’t. In this piece, I’ll describe just a few of the ways DEI…

LWVUS Urged the Preservation of Public Access to Federal Data (Legal Document)

LWVUS joined hundreds of organizations to express our concern and strong opposition to the recent incidents in which public data have been selectively removed from federal websites.

Arctic Village Council v. Fenumiai (Legal Case)

LWV of Alaska and co-plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in Alaska state court, arguing the lack of a notice and cure process for absentee ballots violated the Alaska Constitution

Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP v. Chapman (now Schmidt) (Legal Case)

LWV of Pennsylvania and co-plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit to count mail ballots that were returned and properly sealed by the statutory deadline but were rejected for being incorrectly dated

Why We Will Remain the League of WOMEN Voters (Blog)

Over a century after our founding — and the passage of the 19th amendment that granted many women the right to vote — some people question why the League of Women Voters keeps the word ‘women’ in our…