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Increasing Voter Registration

In 2019, LWV of Houston volunteers registered more than 31,000 new citizens to vote. Here's how they did it.

LWV of Texas filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the state violates the National Voter Registration Act by not providing voter registration with driver’s license applications online.

Voting rights advocates celebrated an agreement requiring the State of Arizona to provide more effective voter registration services.

LWV of New Hampshire is challenging a state law that imposes burdensome requirements on voter registration.

The League of Women Voters will hold more than 500 voter registration events on September 24 for National Voter Registration Day.

In a suit brought by LWV of Tennessee and partners, a federal judge blocked a new Tennessee law that sought to restrict paid voter registration drives.

Opinion piece from LWV CEO Virginia Kase on what it means to celebrate the passage of the 19th Amendment 99 years later.

June marked the end of our 2019 High School Voter Registration project. With a record-breaking 60 Leagues participating, volunteers registered a total of 20,115 high school student in 28 states across the country, plus D.C.  

 It’s important we remember the struggles so many go through to become what so many are just born into, so that none of us take the right of citizenship—and all the responsibility that entails—for granted.