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Fighting Voter Suppression

Report: Still Locked Out from Voting in Tennessee (News Clips)

This story was originally published in Public News Service.

In Tennessee, almost a half-million people will not be able to vote in any upcoming election because of a past felony conviction, and a new survey found counties are not making the issue easy to remedy.

The League of Women Voters of Tennessee conducted a survey with the county officials responsible for implementing the mandated process of restoring voting rights for these individuals.

Reproductive Freedom for All v. Board of State Canvassers (Legal Case)

LWV Michigan filed an amicus brief against an attempt to block a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive freedom

People in jail can vote — but it’s often complicated. Sheboygan County jail and League of Women Voters are working to confront the barriers (News Clips)

This story was originally published in the Sheboygan Press.

Since 2021, volunteers from the League of Women Voters of Sheboygan County have worked with the Sheriff’s Department — which operates the county jail — to help voters register and get a ballot.

Democracy North Carolina v. North Carolina State Board of Elections (Legal Case)

Case brought by the League of Women Voters of North Carolina and co-plaintiffs seeking changes to several voting regulations to ensure safe and accessible voting during the COVID-19 pandemic

Green v. Bell (Legal Case)

LWV of North Carolina moved to intervene in a lawsuit that alleged the North Carolina Board of Elections had failed to properly remove ineligible voters from the rolls in violation of the NVRA

League of Women Voters Responds to Senate Vote on DC Criminal Code (Press Release)

WASHINGTON — Today the League of Women Voters of the United States CEO Virginia Kase Solomón issued the following statement after the Senate voted 81-14 to block D.C.'s criminal code overhaul:

Letter: Why create more hoops for eligible voters to jump through? (News Clips)

This letter to the editor was originally published in InForum.

Barbara Headrick, Fowzia Adde and Nicole Donaghy urge legislators to kill a bill that "would require naturalized US citizens who have not updated their ID since naturalization to prove their citizenship in order to vote. This bill targets New American voters who have been recently naturalized."

Selma and Current Threats to the Voting Rights Act (Blog)

As activists gathered in Selma on Sunday to reenact the steps of marchers like John Lewis and Martin Luther King, Jr., we are reminded that the fight for voting rights is as alive today as it was in 1965. Indeed, the landmark law that passed after Bloody Sunday — the Voting Rights Act of 1965 —  is in critical condition. 

Schroeder v. Minnesota Secretary of State (Legal Case)

LWV of Minnesota filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs seeking to overturn Minnesota’s restrictions on voting by people with felony convictions

League of Women Voters: Voting law bills make it harder to carry out the right to vote (News Clips)

This opinion was originally published in the Casper Star-Tribune.

The League of Women Voters of Wyoming respond to proposed bills that would make it harder to vote in Wyoming.