LWV's Work with Urgent Social Justice Issues (Blog) 5/22/2024 To achieve a democracy where every person has the desire, the right, the knowledge, and the confidence to participate, LWV advocates on issues like voting rights and “urgent issues." Urgent…
LWVUS Opposes SAVE Act (Legal Document) 5/16/2024 LWVUS joined coalition partners to oppose the SAVE Act, which would require citizenship documentation to cast a ballot, despite the fact that voters in every state are already required to affirm or…
Tennessee Voters, LWVTN Refile Challenge to State’s “Bona Fide” Primary Voting Law (Press Release) 5/1/2024 Nashville, TN — Today, plaintiffs Victor Ashe, Phil Lawson, Gabe Hart, James R. Palmer, and the League of Women Voters of Tennessee filed a federal…
A crush of lawsuits over voting in multiple states is creating a shadow war for the 2024 election (News Clips) 4/21/2024 This story was originally published by Associated Press Legal experts are warning about how the lawsuits might overwhelm election officials and undermine voter confidence in the the…
LWVUS Submits Statement to Senate around Hearing on AI and Deepfakes in Elections (Legal Document) 4/17/2024 LWVUS submitted a statement for the record to the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law in the US Senate. The Hearing was titled Oversight of AI: Election Deepfakes.
Amicus Brief from Civic Organizations and Local Leaders Denounces San Francisco for Playing Politics at the US Supreme Court to Cover up the City’s Affordable Housing Failures (Press Release) 4/2/2024 A coalition of current and former San Francisco officials and civic organizations filed an amicus brief in the case of City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, the most significant US Supreme Court case…
League joins call for disclosure of presidential campaign bundlers (Legal Document) 1/22/2024 LWVUS joined a coalition of groups calling calls on presidential candidates to reveal their campaign “bundlers.” This letter follows up on a similar letter sent by this cross-…
GEORGIA COURT BLOCKS RACIALLY GERRYMANDERED COBB COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD MAP (Press Release) 12/15/2023 COBB COUNTY, GA — In a win for Black and Latino voters, the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia blocked the Cobb County School Board from using its racially gerrymandered map in an…
My Work as a League Representative at the UN: The Fourth World Conference on Women (Blog) 10/27/2023 Little did I guess when I agreed to represent the League of Women Voters of the United States at the United Nations that it would be such a fulfilling 20 years. One of my primary memories that…
League Joins Effort to Encourage Disclosure of Campaign Bundlers (Legal Document) 10/5/2023 The League joined Issue One and other coalition partners on a letter sent to all presidential candidates encouraging them to publicly disclose information about campaign bundlers on a regular basis…