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Increasing Voter Registration

The Hill: This Women's Equality Day, stop romanticizing the 19th Amendment (News Clips)

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

Leagues register over 20,000 new youth voters  (Blog)

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.  

The Right of Citizenship   (Blog)

 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. 

Washington Post: How a large-scale effort to register black voters led to a crackdown in Tennessee (News Clips)

Last year, an army of paid workers with stacks of voter registration forms fanned out in Memphis, Nashville and other parts of Tennessee to persuade African Americans to vote. In response, the legislature passed a law imposing civil penalties on groups that employ paid canvassers if they submit incomplete or inaccurate voter registration forms.

Registering High School Students Nationwide at Youth Summit (Blog)

On Tuesday, May 21, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and several local museums nationwide hosted the annual National Youth Summit, this year focusing on the forthcoming 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage.

League Joins Groups Urging Presidential Candidates to Prioritize Democracy Reform Agenda (Legal Document)

The League joined over 100 organizations on letters to all announced presidential candidates urging them to implement a democracy reform plan. 

League Calls on Senate to Hold For the People Act Hearing (Legal Document)

The League sent a memo to the U.S. Senate calling for a hearing on the For the People Act. 

High Schoolers want to vote—we have a responsibility to show them how (Blog)

The sooner we can start educating young people about our election and voting systems, the more empowered they will be to make their voices heard. 

League of Women Voters Applauds House of Representatives for Passing the For the People Act (Press Release)
League Urges Support of HR1 and Opposition to Tactics to Weaken Bill (Legal Document)

The League of Women Voters strongly urges members of the U.S. House to vote for HR1, the For the People Act.