Texas Redistricting Plan Blatantly Illegal (Press Release) 9/15/2011 League of Women Voters Urges U.S. Justice Department to Object
North Carolina League speaks out for Voters’ Rights (Press Release) 7/7/2011 North Carolina League speaks out for Voters’ Rights
House Finally Passes Comprehensive Health Care Reform (Press Release) 3/22/2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 21, 2010
League Says House Procedures on Health Care Vote "OK" (Press Release) 3/19/2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Obama Administration Violating Voting Rights Law (Blog) 10/30/2015 We've been lobbying to make sure the healthcare exchanges required by the ACA comply with the National Voter Registration Act. This week, we asked the president for voluntary compliance.
Fair Districts Equal Fair Elections: LWV Ohio Shows how Gerrymandering Took the “Swing” Out of Swing State (Blog) 9/3/2015 Predictable Results: A Report from the League of Women Voters of Ohio Comparing 2011 Gerrymandering to the 2012 and 2014 Election Results, concluded that Ohio’s legislative districts are rigged to…
Medicaid and Medicare Turn 50 (Blog) 7/28/2015 Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments into law thereby creating two of our most influential federal programs – Medicaid and Medicare.
Stopping Partisan Gerrymandering and Protecting Independent Redistricting Commissions (Blog) 6/30/2015 The U.S. Supreme Court issued a big victory for citizen-led democracy. In a 5-4 decision in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, the Court found that voters can…
Key Win at the Supreme Court on Health Care Tax Subsidies (Blog) 6/25/2015 The League joined an amicus brief in King v. Burwell that focused on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on women’s health, arguing that the tax subsidies are essential to women’s health and the…