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Fighting Voter Suppression

To Avoid Voter Confidence Erosion, Ensure Election Security (Blog)

LWVCT's Carol Reimers joined CT SOS Denise Merrill,  Rep. Jim Himes, & UConn Center for Voting Tech.'s Alex Russell to raise awareness on election security. 

At Long Last, Voting Rights Act Restoration to Get a Vote on House Floor (Blog)

Legislation that responds to the Shelby decision will now come to the floor of the U.S. House. H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA), has broad support from civil rights and voting rights groups across the country. 

They were ordinary women who did an extraordinary thing. (Blog)

As the League prepares for 2020 and continues to defend democracy, it is the power of women like Virginia and each of us that is advancing this movement.

Convening to Transform Redistricting (Blog)

Our state leaders met last week in Dulles, VA, to learn and strategize on how they could organize, empower, and mobilize their state leagues to accomplish our goal to end partisan gerrymandering.

League Endorses SHIELD Act (Legal Document)

The League joined a letter to U.S. House members urging support for HR 4617, the SHIELD Act.

Rolling up our Sleeves for Fair Maps (Blog)

After the Supreme Court's decision in the Rucho case this past June, "failing to take a stand for voters and...limit...partisan gerrymandering," we promised to  fight harder than ever.

Washington Post: Judge rules Florida can’t block felons from voting, even if they have unpaid fines (News Clips)

A federal judge ruled in an LWV of Florida case that outstanding fines cannot bar formerly incarcerated Floridians from voting.

Testimony by Virginia Kase on Voting Rights And Election Administration In America (Press Release)

The League of Women Voters CEO Virginia Kase, testified before the U.S. House Committee on House Administration, Subcommittee on Elections on Thursday, October 17, 2019. 

New York Times: Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%. (News Clips)

Jen Miller, LWV of Ohio Executive Director, found her own voter status at risk of illegitimate purging, along with over 200,000 others. LWVOH contacted voters to inform them of their status.

People Powered Fair Maps FAQ (Article)