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ABC News: Groups answer Supreme Court with million-dollar push to counter gerrymandering (News Clips)
Columbus Dispatch: Groups urge Ohio to pause voter purge, warn thousands could be erroneously removed from rolls (News Clips)

Voting rights groups are concerned that thousands of voters could be erroneously purged from Ohio’s voter rolls. In a letter to Secretary of State Frank LaRose, the League of Women Voters Ohio, All Voting Is Local, the NAACP Ohio State Conference and Campus Vote Project called on him to “pause the state’s voter purge process and not move forward on September 6” as planned.

LWVUS Urges Members of U.S. House to cosponsor H. Res. 513 (Legal Document)

A memo to members of the U.S. House supports H. Res. 513, which reaffirms the importance of democracy and the freedoms that it brings.

LWVUS to U.S. House: Restore the Voting Rights Act (Legal Document)

LWVUS seeks to find common ground with lawmakers as H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act moves forward in Committee this fall. 

Houston Chronicle: Texas’ confusing voting laws shouldn’t land people in prison [Opinion] (News Clips)

Opinion piece from Grace Chimene, president of the League of Women Voters of Texas, on the League's support of Crystal Mason-Hobbs's case seeking clarity and fairness in laws around returning citizens voting.

Washington Post: In Florida, modified sentences and ‘rocket dockets’ aim to ensure felons can still register to vote (News Clips)

Florida judges and prosecutors are working with felons and public defenders to find ways to register former inmates to vote, a process approved by voters last year that Republican legislators have made more difficult.

LWV Joins Case Opposing Criminal Penalties for Voter Eligibility Confusion (Press Release)

Today, the League of Women Voters of Texas joined as amicus in Mason-Hobbs v. Texas, arguing that genuine confusion around voter eligibility does not violate Texas state law.

House Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on the Voting Rights Act (Blog)

On the sixth anniversary of Shelby v. Holder, the Supreme Court decision that gutted the heart of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the U.S. House Judiciary Committee conducted a hearing on the continuing challenges to voting rights in our country. 

LWV Volunteer Lobby Corps Spring Update from Capitol Hill (Blog)

The LWVUS Volunteer Lobby Corps had a very active spring this year focusing on the For the People Act, the Voting Rights Advancement Act, and the Women's History commemorative coin program.

League Urges Co-Sponsorship of Resolution Establishing Democracy Month (Article)

The League of Women Voters sent a memo to U.S. Senators urging them to co-sponsor S. Res 252, a resolution to establish September as National Democracy Month.