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Expanding Voter Access

2020 Election Impact Report (Article)

The 2020 election saw the greatest participation in our nation’s history. Throughout election season, the League worked tirelessly to ensure voters had the information and the access to make their voices heard.

LWV Commends President Biden for Prioritizing Voting Rights in First Joint Address to Congress (Press Release)

We thank President Biden for calling on Congress to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and we echo that call.  

League of Women Voters of South Carolina v. Andino (Legal Case)

LWV of South Carolina and co-plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit against South Carolina counties who rejected absentee ballots for alleged signature mismatches without a notice-and-cure process

LWV Commends US House Passage of DC Statehood (Press Release)

DC statehood is not a partisan issue but a civil rights issue which cannot be separated from the fight for racial justice. 

We Must Grant Statehood for the People of D.C. (Blog)

Without statehood, D.C. residents aren’t full citizens. We deserve to join the Union as a state whose 712,000+ people live, work, play, and taxes like everyone else.

League calls for the passage of S1 (For the People Act) in the Senate (Legal Document)

The For the People Act passed the House in March, and now it's time for this comprehensive democracy legislation to pass in the Senate.

Demonstrating Our Impact: LWV’s Semi-Annual Survey Project (Blog)

In 2019, I joined the League of Women Voters to help build culture of evaluation focused on outcomes of our work. To this end, during the Fall of 2020, we launched the Semi-Annual Survey Project. 

Virginia Kase Statement for Senate Rule Committee Hearing on S1, the "For the People Act" (Press Release)

The For the People Act is the democracy reform bill the American people want and deserve. 

LWV Supports the For the People Act in the Senate (Press Release)

Senators must come together to protect voters and defend democracy 

The Formerly-Convicted Should Get to Vote. Here’s How the Senate Can Make it Happen. (Blog)

Formerly-convicted individuals get counted in the census, hold jobs, raise families, and contribute to their communities -- why shouldn’t they have a voice in their representative government?