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Reading

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General

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  • Ford, Lynne (2009). Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics. Infobase Publishing. p. 280. ISBN 9781438110325. The National League of Women Voters (NLWV) was established in 1920...Rather than directly entering electoral politics, the NLWV dedicated its efforts to educating newly enfranchised women, studying national legislation and social policy, and participating in local civic matters.
  • Sharer, Wendy (13 March 2007). Vote and Voice: Women's Organizations and Political Literacy, 1915-1930. Southern Illinois University Press. Anticipating the difficulty of integrating former suffragists into partisan American politics, Catt called for a successor organization to the NAWSA that would train new women voters in electoral procedures and further the interests of women within the platforms and administrative structures of political parties.
  • "League of Women Voters". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 24 August 2022. The League of Women Voters' work includes get out the vote efforts, often shortened to GOTV. These are concerted efforts to register voters and increase voter turnout during elections. ... As part of their GOTV efforts, the League of Women Voters was designed to educate voters on the issues and candidates on their ballots during each election cycle.
  • "Remaining Nonpartisan in Hyper-partisan Times". The League of Women Voters. 10 February 2021. Retrieved 24 September 2022. The League's advocacy work is issued based, and we arrive at our positions based on careful study and input from our members in communities across the country. We never derive our positions from politicians, and even when candidates or parties support the same issue, we never endorse them.
  • "The "Women Voters"" (PDF). The New York Times. October 11, 1954. Retrieved October 9, 2022. The organization has won the respect of both political parties for its scrupulous nonpartisan-ship.
  • Smith, Ethel B. (November 29, 1925). "Women working for new laws" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved October 4, 2022. The Women's Joint Congressional Committee is a well set up piece of machinery which functions for a combined membership of organized women numbering literally millions. Mrs. Maud Wood Park, then President of the National League of Women Voters, took the lead in carrying out the idea by calling the other women together to discuss it...the National League of Women Voters... was planned definitely as a non-partisan political organization of women.
  • Black, Naomi (2019). Social Feminism. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501745492. Examining the development of organizations previously considered traditional and nonpolitical—the League of Women Voters, the Women's Co-operative Guild, and the Union féminine civique et sociale—Black concludes that the social feminism which characterizes these groups is a genuinely radical approach to social change.

History

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  • Maxwell, Kay J. (February 16, 2012). "The League of Women Voters Through the Decades!". The League of Women Voters. Retrieved October 21, 2022. From the spirit of the suffrage movement and the shock of the First World War came a great idea - that a nonpartisan civic organization could provide the education and experience the public needed to assure the success of democracy. The League of Women Voters was founded on that idea.
  • "National Council of Women Voters". Washington State Historical Society. November 23, 2018. Retrieved October 21, 2022. Shortly after the Washington suffrage victory in 1910, Emma Smith DeVoe spearheaded the creation of the National Council of Women Voters (NCWV), a nonpartisan coalition of women from voting states.

Educating Citizens

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  • Haberman, Clyde (February 16, 2007). "How to Run for Office". The New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2022. With a grant from the New York Community Trust, the league has set in motion months of tutorials on how to run for office in this city. These are to include tips from political pros on raising money, on election laws, on debating techniques, on getting out the vote


Environment

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  • Hill, Gladwyn (November 11, 1975). "E.P.A. Backs Clean-Air 'Trade-Off' Allowing New Industrial Pollution" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved November 18, 2022. [The policy] was immediately challenged by the National Clean Air Coalition, a Washington environmental group ... [including] the League of Women Voters, the American Lung Association, the Sierra Club, and Friends of the Earth
  • Hill, Gladwyn (February 21, 1979). "Law on Air Quality Debated on Coast" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved November 18, 2022. ...the California League of Women Voters called the change from .08 parts per million [of photochemical oxidants] to 0.12 as 'alarming in its implications
  • "Maine Considers Relaxing Its Strict Air Quality Standards". THe New York Times. March 4, 1979. Retrieved November 18, 2022. Barbara R. Alexander, an Augusta lawyer and spokesman for the Maine League of Woman Voters, criticized the proposal. She called the bureau's plan to regulate ozone pollution a "good first step," but deplored the agency's decision to ignore the pollution produced by automobiles.
  • Waggoner, Walter H. (December 8, 1973). "State Urged to Speed Curb On Indirect Air Pollution". The New York Times. Retrieved November 18, 2022. Most speakers at this morning's hearing, representing the League of Women Voters and clean‐air and mass‐transit groups, also voiced approval of the Federal regulations
  • King, Wayne (July 4, 1977). "T.V.A., a Major Polluter, Faces Suit to Cut Sulfur Dioxide Fumes". The New York Times. Retrieved November 18, 2022. The groups listed as plaintiffs in the suits are the Tennessee Thoracic Society, the East Tennessee Energy Group, the League of Women Voters of Tennessee, the Natural Resources Defense Council Inc., the Save Our Cumberland Mountains, the Sierra Club, the Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning, the Tennessee Environmental Council, the Vanderbilt Environment Group and the Alabama Lung Association
  • Asbell, Bernard (November 21, 1976). "The outlawing of next year's cars" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved November 18, 2022. Barbara Reid Alexander of Bath, Maine, is a paid environmental lobbyist. At home she serves, unpaid, as environmental chairperson for her state's League of Women Voters, but last year the Sierra Club retained her at a modest monthly fee to go to Washington to lobby for preserving the tough standards and tough deadlines of the Clean Air Act.
  • Lombardi, Kate Stone (October 21, 1990). "Comparison Shopping: Which Costs the Environment Less?". The New York Times. Retrieved November 18, 2022. Environmental shopping simply means considering the environmental impact of the products you buy and selecting environmentally friendly products and packaging when you have a choice, said Camilla Calhoun, a member of the committee on the environment of the League of Women Voters of New Castle, which is running the tours. What we want to emphasize is the four R's - reduce, re-use, recycle and reject, Ms. Calhoun told five consumers who recently took the tour through a Gristede's supermarket here.
  • Mohn, Tanya (February 2, 2003). "ENVIRONMENT; When Runoff Flows Untreated". The New York Times. Retrieved November 18, 2022. The League of Women Voters was an early champion of the Clean Water Act. The Westchester chapter is now urging action on Phase Two, and has made a film, Your Water: Your Home, Your Health, Your Taxes, Your Vote, which it has made available along with a study guide in libraries throughout the county.
  • Hulse, Carl (May 25, 2011). "Voter Group Flexes Muscle in Ads Aimed at Senators". The New York Times. Retrieved November 18, 2022. Senators Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, and Scott P. Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, found themselves on the receiving end of a hard-hitting, big-money television campaign taking them to task for votes to limit the regulatory power of the Environmental Protection Agency.
  • Hulse, Carl (May 25, 2011). "Voter Group Flexes Muscle in Ads Aimed at Senators". The New York Times. Retrieved November 18, 2022. Senators Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, and Scott P. Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, found themselves on the receiving end of a hard-hitting, big-money television campaign taking them to task for votes to limit the regulatory power of the Environmental Protection Agency.
  • Goodnough, Abby; Bidgood, Jess (January 23, 2012). "Massachusetts Senate Candidates Look to Limit Outside Advertising". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. two outside groups — the League of Women Voters and the League of Conservation Voters – have spent about $2 million on ads attacking Mr. Brown's environmental record. ... The League of Women Voters was more noncommittal, with its national president, Elisabeth MacNamara, saying in a statement that the ads it ran about Mr. Brown's environmental record in April 2011 were "not in support or opposition of any candidate but in support of the Clean Air Act. The only votes we are interested in influencing are the votes in Congress," Ms. MacNamara said.

Voting Rights

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Native American

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  • History.com Editors (February 9, 2010). "Congress enacts the Indian Citizenship Act". HISTORY. A&E Television Networks. Retrieved October 21, 2022. With Congress' passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924, the government of the United States confers citizenship on all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the country.
  • "Full and Real Citizenship: Advancing Native American Voting Rights". The League of Women Voters. October 30, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2022. Native American voters should not be required to engage in constant litigation to exercise a basic right granted to them by virtue of citizenship. At the very least, the federal government must create the infrastructure to allow them to exercise that right. Enacting the Native American Voting Rights Act would be a first step
  • Yazzie v. Hobbs, 977 F.3d 964,967 (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 2020).

Women

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  • Blakemore, Erin (March 5, 2020). "1920: The Suffragists". Time. New York City: Time USA LLC. Retrieved October 21, 2022.

Voter Suppression

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  • Binder, Binder; Fausset, Richard (April 25, 2016). "Federal Judge Upholds North Carolina Voter Rules". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. A federal judge on Monday upheld sweeping Republican-backed changes to election rules, including a voter identification provision, that civil rights groups say unfairly targeted African-Americans and other minorities. ... The opinion, by Judge Thomas D. Schroeder of Federal District Court in Winston-Salem, upheld the repeal of a provision that allowed people to register and vote on the same day. It also upheld a seven-day reduction in the early-voting period; the end of preregistration, which allowed some people to sign up before their 18th birthdays; and the repeal of a provision that allowed for the counting of ballots cast outside voters' home precinct. It also left intact North Carolina's voter identification requirement, which legislators softened last year to permit residents to cast ballots, even if they lack the required documentation, if they submit affidavits.The N.A.A.C.P., the League of Women Voters and the Justice Department were among the plaintiffs challenging the 2013 law.
  • "The 2016 Presidential Election WAS Rigged". The League of Women Voters. November 23, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2022. This year, and for several years, there has been a concerted effort in many states to stop some voters from voting, or to make it much harder for them to participate. Since the Supreme Court rolled back key provisions of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, elected officials have purged existing voters from the rolls, made cuts to early voting, reduced polling places, put in place strict voter photo ID laws and levied onerous voter registration restrictions.
  • Chokshi, Niraj (November 6, 2018). "How to Report Voter Intimidation, and How to Spot It". The New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2022. "I would say to people, 'Use your gut,'" said Virginia Kase, the chief executive of the nonpartisan League of Women Voters, which encourages democratic participation. "If it doesn't feel right, it probably isn't."

Expanding the Vote

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Motor Voter: National Voter Registration Act (NVRA)

Help America Vote Act (HAVA)

Voter ID Issues

  • Greenhouse, Linda (October 21, 2006). "Supreme Court Allows Arizona to Use New Voter-ID Procedure". THe New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2022. In an unsigned opinion, the court granted Arizona's request to overturn an injunction issued this month by a two-judge federal appeals panel. The judges, A. Wallace Tashima and William A. Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, had acted at the request of a group of Arizona Indian tribes, the League of Women Voters and other groups who have joined to challenge the constitutionality of the rules.
  • Dewan, Shaila (September 7, 2007). "Photo IDs for Voters Are Upheld". The New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2022. Judge Harold L. Murphy of Federal District Court here ruled that a group of plaintiffs who challenged the law, a coalition that included the American Civil Liberties Union, the N.A.A.C.P. and the League of Women Voters, had not proved that the law placed "an undue or significant burden" on the right to vote.
  • Schwartz, John (September 17, 2009). "Indiana Court Strikes Down Voter ID Law". The New York Times. Retrieved November 25, 2022. An Indiana law requiring voters to show identification, declared constitutional by the United States Supreme Court just last year, was struck down Thursday by a state appellate court. The state court said the law violated the Indiana Constitution by not treating all voters equally. The legislature passed the voter ID law in 2005, and it was challenged in federal court. The Supreme Court upheld it in April 2008, but that July the League of Women Voters brought a new suit in state court.
  • Lyman, Rick (November 6, 2013). "Texas' Stringent Voter ID Law Makes a Dent at Polls". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. On Tuesday, Texas unveiled its tough new voter ID law. ... The nonpartisan League of Women Voters of Texas, which opposed the new law, said that it was concerned more about voters who do not have the proper documentation at all, and might stay away from the polls altogether as a result. "We have always felt there was anywhere from 500,000 to 800,000 voters who would not be able to present the proper identification," Linda Krefting, the group's president, said. "The concern we have is that all this flap in the news may have discouraged people from turning out at the polls."
  • Eckholm, Erik (March 21, 2014). "After Ruling, Alabama Joins 2 States in Moving to Alter Voting Rules". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. Alabama says it plans to move ahead with a requirement for potential voters to show concrete proof of citizenship, in the first sign of a wider impact from a court decision on Wednesday ordering a federal elections agency to help Arizona and Kansas enforce their own such requirement. ... Civic groups like the League of Women Voters, which joined the federal agency as a party in the Wichita lawsuit, warned of serious consequences if the ruling was not overturned. "The decision is so broad that it would allow a state to implement almost any restriction on voter registration," Elisabeth MacNamara, the president of the League of Women Voters, said in a statement. "The court made an incorrect legal decision, and we are confident it will be overturned."
  • Eckholm, Erik (November 7, 2015). "Federal Form for Voting Is Ruled Valid". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the demands by Arizona and Kansas that federal forms for voter registration used in their states require documentary proof of citizenship. ... Over the objections of civic groups including the League of Women Voters and Hispanic organizations, the two states require proof of citizenship for those registering using state forms. Some voters register instead using the federal form, which was designed to simplify the process and requires only that applicants swear, on penalty of perjury, that they are citizens.
  • Wines, Michael (April 8, 2016). "The Voter Support Agency Accused of Suppressing Votes". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. The agency's executive director, Brian D. Newby ... unilaterally reversed a policy that the body's commissioners ... had endorsed since the agency's creation in 2002: that people registering to vote need offer no proof, beyond swearing an oath, that they are American citizens. ... "It's trench warfare in the battle of voter suppression," said Lloyd Leonard, the advocacy director of the League of Women Voters, the leader of the lawsuit against the commission. ... "If the Newby decision stands, then every state in the nation will be able to require documentary proof of citizenship," said Mr. Leonard of the League of Women Voters. He said that would force tens of thousands of eligible voters off the rolls in those states, many of them poor and elderly, who do not have the documents required to register or the time, resources or energy to obtain them.
  • Berman, Ari (June 13, 2017). "The Man Behind Trump's Voter-Fraud Obsession". The New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2022. In June 2013, the Supreme Court ruled that Arizona could not require proof of citizenship for those who registered to vote using a federal registration form, which [would have] the effect of nullifying part of the SAFE Act. Justice Antonin Scalia ... noted that states like Arizona and Kansas that wanted to implement proof-of-citizenship laws could petition the Election Assistance Commission ... . Its approval, he said, would be sufficient to make the laws constitutional. one of Kobach's own election commissioners in Kansas, Brian Newby of Johnson County ... got the job [as a commissioner of the EAC] in November 2015. Three months after Newby took office, he unexpectedly changed the E.A.C.'s rules in Kobach's favor. ... The League of Women Voters sued the E.A.C. two weeks later. "If the Newby decision stands, then every state in the nation will be able to require documentary proof of citizenship," the group's advocacy director, Lloyd Leonard, told The New York Times. "Citizenship documents," like birth certificates and passports, are not things most Americans carry around with them. That makes it impossible for groups like the League of Women Voters to register voters at farmers markets or public marches and demonstrations. When the SAFE Act went into effect, eight of nine chapters of the Kansas League of Women Voters suspended voter-registration activities; the Wichita chapter went from registering 4,000 voters in 2012 to just 465 in 2014.
  • Bosman, Julie (March 23, 2018). "Vote Fraud Crusader Kris Kobach Takes His Case to Court, and to Kansas Voters". The New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2022. [Kobach] is fighting to preserve a voter registration law requiring Kansans to show proof of citizenship to register to vote. ... The trial is the result of a lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union filed in 2016 against Mr. Kobach on behalf of the League of Women Voters and individual Kansans.
  • Bosman, Julie (June 19, 2018). "Judge Rejects Kansas Law Requiring Voters to Show Proof of Citizenship". The New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2022. A restrictive law on voting in Kansas championed by Kris W. Kobach, the secretary of state, was struck down on Monday by a federal judge who said Mr. Kobach had failed during a trial to show evidence of widespread voter fraud. ... Under the 2011 law, Kansas lawmakers had approved one of the strictest voting measures in the country. The law went into effect in 2013, requiring people registering to vote to show a document from an approved list, such as a birth certificate or passport. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Mr. Kobach in 2016 on behalf of the League of Women Voters and individual Kansans, arguing that the law disenfranchised people who were attempting to register legally but did not have access to the required documents.
  • Vigdor, Neil (June 29, 2022). "Missouri Enacts Strict New Voter Rules and Will Switch to Caucuses". The New York Times. Retrieved November 23, 2022. The new law, which Gov. Michael L. Parson signed at the State Capitol in Jefferson City, requires voters to present a photo ID when casting a regular or absentee ballot. Those without such documentation will be required to fill out a provisional ballot that would be segregated until they provide photo identification or their signature is matched to the one kept on file by election officials. ... The president of the League of Women Voters of Missouri told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch this month to expect legal challenges to the new law, which the group said could disenfranchise voters of color and those who are young or older.

Ranked-choice voting

  • Seelye, Katharine (November 3, 2017). "Maine Delays Start of Voter-Approved Election Law". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. Ranked-choice voting was supposed to go into effect in the primary in June 2018. ... The state's Democratic Party supported it, though ranked-choice voting does not favor one party or another. It also earned the support of many independents and the League of Women Voters of Maine.

Redistricting

  • Ain, Stewart (May 27, 2007). "Now, Nassau Reconsiders Redistricting". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2022. SUFFOLK COUNTY has created a nonpartisan commission to redraw legislative districts after the 2010 census. ... W. Katherine Hoak, co-president of the League of Women Voters of Suffolk County, applauded Ms. Jacobs and noted that the league, which helped write Suffolk's law, had hoped it "would spearhead a movement so that other counties in the state would follow suit."
  • Hakim, Danny (April 12, 2007). "The Shape of Things". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2022. During a news conference today, Barbara Bartoletti, legislative director of the League of Women Voters of New York State, said the 51st Senate district looked like "Abraham Lincoln riding on a vacuum cleaner."
  • Steinhauer, Jennifer (October 27, 2008). "Plan on California Ballot for New Districting Panel". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2022. The initiative, which was largely written by Common Cause and the AARP, is supported by Mr. Schwarzenegger, various former state officials and the League of Women Voters. Under the proposal, the responsibility for drawing the new boundaries for legislative districts in both the Senate and the Assembly would shift from the Legislature to a new 14-member commission comprising five Democrats, five Republicans and four independent or minor-party voters who would draw new maps every 10 years, corresponding with the census cycle.
  • McQueary, Kristen (May 22, 2011). "Some See Suburban Slight in the Newly Drawn State Legislative Districts". The New York Times. Retrieved November 25, 2022. In drawing new legislative districts for state lawmakers last week, Democrats in Springfield said they abided by voting-rights laws and citizens' concerns. But they might have done so at the expense of suburban residents, some of whom already felt neglected by their Chicago-based lawmakers. ... the League of Women Voters, which failed in efforts to give map-drawing control to a nonpartisan group, said the proposed maps ignored the goal of keeping together similar communities. Instead, it says, the maps protect incumbents. "That sense of entitlement is, frankly, totally unfortunate and disappointing," Ms. Schaafsma said. ... Ms. Davis "pays no attention to anything we say," said Barbara Pasquinelli, a Palos Heights resident and co-president of the League of Women Voters of Illinois. "She does not return phone calls. I have a relationship with the lady who answers her phone. She calls me 'Ms. Barbara.' "
  • Alvarez, Lizette (July 10, 2014). "Judge Rules G.O.P. Illegally Redrew Florida Districts". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. In a sharply worded decision, a Florida judge ruled late Thursday that Republicans illegally redrew the state's congressional districts ... The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the League of Women Voters and other groups that accused Republicans of manipulating political maps to favor their candidates.
  • Alvarez, Lizette (July 11, 2014). "Ruling That Rejects 2 Florida Districts' Borders Casts Haze Over Coming Elections". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. On Thursday night in a scathing decision, a state court judge tossed aside [recently drawn] district lines, saying they "made a mockery" of a voter-approved amendment meant to inject fairness into a process that has long been politically tainted. ... The 13-day trial in May and Jun [was] a result of a lawsuit brought more than two years ago by the League of Women Voters and other groups
  • Alvarez, Lizette (July 15, 2014). "Florida G.O.P. Seeks Delay on New Districts". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. Two top Republican leaders in Florida announced Tuesday that the Legislature would redraw the boundaries for the two congressional seats that a judge ruled unconstitutional, but they said they did not want the map to take effect until the 2016 elections. ... The League of Women Voters of Florida and other groups that brought the redistricting lawsuit said that voters should not have to vote in an election based on an unconstitutional map. They want to see the boundaries redrawn before the election, and they have asked Judge Lewis for an expedited hearing on the issue.
  • Alvarez, Lizette (August 1, 2014). "Deadline Set to Redraw Voting Map in Florida". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. Judge Terry P. Lewis of Leon County gave the State Legislature two weeks to submit a new proposed congressional map to replace the gerrymandered boundaries of the Fifth and 10th Congressional Districts, which he had already ruled unconstitutional. Admitting that law and logistics could prove formidable obstacles, he postponed his decision on whether to delay the November 2014 general elections, putting the future of those congressional races and those closest to them in doubt. ... The League of Women Voters of Florida filed a lawsuit against the Legislature, arguing that lawmakers deliberately conspired to draw up district maps to favor themselves and their colleagues. ... The League of Women Voters of Florida then asked [the judge] to appoint a special master to decide new maps by the end of the year, and urged him to not allow the 2014 elections to take place under maps that he had declared invalid. Florida legislators said they would not appeal, but asked for any new map to take effect in 2016. ... "Judge Lewis has shown that legislative violation of our Constitution will not be tolerated, will have consequences, and that the will of the people will be enforced," Deirdre Macnab, the president of the League of Women Voters of Florida, said in a statement. "This gives hope to other states grappling with the cancer of political gerrymandering, and the League is thrilled to see that the people's voice has been heard."
  • Alvarez, Lizette (August 8, 2014). "Florida Redraws an Election Map That Was Ruled to Be Unconstitutional". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. Redistricting committees for both the state House and Senate on Friday approved a redesigned congressional map — drawn in private by the two Republican committee heads, members of their staff and outside lawyers — that they expect will comply with the court's orders. ... But the League of Women Voters of Florida, part of a coalition that sued the Legislature over redistricting, said the new map fell short of the court mandate. The new boundaries still pack African-Americans into the Fifth District, the group said, benefiting Republican incumbents in surrounding districts. The coalition submitted its own revised map, which received lukewarm support in the Legislature and was rejected by the Florida N.A.A.C.P.
  • Wines, Michael (June 15, 2017). "Pennsylvania Lawsuit Says House Redistricting Is Partisan Gerrymander". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. The suit contends that the Republican-controlled state legislature redrew congressional district boundaries in 2011 with the aim of creating as many unassailable Republican House seats as possible. ...Democrats and Republicans draw political maps to entrench themselves in power, said Chris Carson, president of the League of Women Voters, whose Pennsylvania chapter is a plaintiff in the suit. ... "Both sides do it when they have the opportunity, and it has a long and glorious history, Ms. Carson said. "But it's got to stop."
  • Wines, Michael (September 6, 2020). "Federal Judge Blocks, for Now, Further Winding Down of the 2020 Census". The New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2022. The Census Bureau had begun ending its count in places where it considered its job done. But a lawsuit claims that stopping now will result in a flawed count. ... The National Urban League, the League of Women Voters and a host of advocacy groups and local governments filed the suit last month. They argue that the order to end the head-counting portion of the census early will lead to an inaccurate tally that will cost some communities both political representation and millions of federal dollars that are allotted based on population totals.

Voter Registration

  • Cave, Damian (April 28, 2008). "Florida again seems to be courting electoral trouble". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2022. The League of Women Voters in Florida and its 27 local groups have helped thousands of residents register to vote over the years. But just over a week ago, the organization's leaders said they would have to stop their current drive because the state's top election official planned to enforce strict deadlines and fines of up to $1,000 for groups that lose voter registration forms or turn them in late.
  • Cave, Damien (April 29, 2008). "Voting Group Sues Florida Over Penalties". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2022. The League of Women Voters of Florida sued state election officials on Monday to challenge a law that fines voter registration groups for losing registration forms or returning them late.
  • Urbina, Ian (August 6, 2006). "New registration rules stir voter debate in Ohio". The New York Time. Retrieved November 8, 2022. In Florida, the League of Women Voters and other groups are suing over a new law that imposes heavy fines for candidates if they submit forms late or if there are errors on the forms, Weiser said.
  • Urbina, Ian (June 13, 2008). "V.A. Ban on Voter Drives Is Criticized". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2022. Mary G. Wilson, president of the League of Women Voters, said: "It just seems wrong to the league that the V.A. is erecting barriers to voter registration for our nation's veterans. They appear to be using technicalities to block many veterans from registering to vote."
  • Alvarez, Lizette (May 5, 2011). "Florida Passes Bill to Limit 3rd-Party Voter Registration". The New York Times. Retrieved November 25, 2022. the Florida Legislature passed a bill on Thursday that would tighten the rules on third-party voter registration and limit the number of days early voting can take place ... By requiring third-party groups to submit voter registration forms to the state within just 48 hours or risk fines, the bill would dampen the enthusiasm of volunteers, voter advocacy groups said. On Thursday, the president of the Florida League of Women Voters said her organization would most likely stop registering voters because she could not ask volunteers to assume that risk. "It's a huge step backward for the state of Florida," said Deirdre Macnab, the league's president. "If these series of ideas become law it will be a vast new way to suppress voter registration and turnout just in time for the 2012 election."
  • Cooper, Michael; McGinty, Jo Craven (March 27, 2012). "Florida's New Election Law Blunts Voter Drives". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. The state's new elections law — which requires groups that register voters to turn in completed forms within 48 hours or risk fines, among other things — has led the state's League of Women Voters to halt its efforts this year. ... the supervisor of elections, Ann McFall, said that she attributed much of the change to the new law. "The drop-off is our League of Women Voters, our five universities in Volusia County, none of which are making a concentrated effort this year," Ms. McFall said. ... Deirdre Macnab, the president of the League of Women Voters of Florida, filed suit with other civic groups to overturn the law. "Basically our volunteers, after 72 years of registering voters problem-free, would now need an attorney on one hand and a secretary on the other to even attempt to navigate these new laws," said Ms. Macnab, whose organization has sued the state over past restrictions.
  • Greenhouse, Steven (March 14, 2012). "A.F.L.-C.I.O. Takes On Voter ID Laws". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. The League of Women Voters has suspended its voter registration efforts in Florida, with the group's leaders blaming what they said were the law's red tape and onerous fines.
  • Alvarez, Lizette (May 31, 2012). "Judge Blocks Florida's Voter Drive Rules". The New York Times. Retrieved November 25, 2022. A federal judge on Thursday ordered Florida to stop enforcing several "onerous" requirements on voter registration groups that were part of a law passed last year in an effort to tighten election rules. ... A few of the new requirements, which the judge called "harsh and impractical" and "burdensome," proved so unworkable that voter advocacy organizations like the League of Women Voters and Rock the Vote, both of which sued the state, stopped registering Floridians to vote. ... The League of Women Voters is reviewing the ruling to see whether it can resume registering voters in Florida. Our organization is eager to get back to its core work of bringing eligible citizens on to Florida's voter rolls," said Deirdre Macnab, president of the League of Women Voters in Florida. "We will be evaluating very quickly and thoroughly if this injunction will allow us to resume voter registration in anticipation of the fall election season."
  • Alvarez, Lizette (August 29, 2012). "Judge to Toss Out Changes in Florida Voter Registration". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. A federal judge said on Wednesday that he planned to block provisions of a Florida measure that made it harder for organizations to register voters in the state. The measure, part of a broad and contentious 2011 election law in Florida, had a serious impact on third-party voter groups, like the League of Women Voters and Rock the Vote, which filed the suit along with the Florida Public Interest Research Group Education Fund. The groups asserted that the new requirements were onerous and made volunteers vulnerable to fines and even felony charges. ... Deirdre Macnab, the president of the League of Women Voters of Florida, which suspended its operations for a year, said she was delighted with the ruling. "It sets an important precedent in Florida and nationally that gives a strong level of protection for third-party registration groups," Ms. Macnab said. "We have been a historical part of America in reaching out to underserved communities." But, she added, the all-volunteer voter registration groups now face an arduous task. The registration deadline for the November election is five weeks away. "We have so far now to catch up in making sure that every day Florida voices are going to be heard in a very important election with very important decisions to be made," Ms. Macnab said.
  • Alvarez, Lizette (September 29, 2012). "More Suspicious Voter Forms Are Found". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. The number of Florida counties reporting suspicious voter registration forms connected to Strategic Allied Consulting, the firm hired by the state Republican Party to sign up new voters, has grown to 10, officials said ... Mary Blackwell, a volunteer for the League of Women Voters in Okaloosa County, said she was registering voters this month at Northwest Florida State College. Sitting nearby was a man who said he was registering voters for the Republican Party of Florida. The man told her he received $12 an hour but had to bring in at least 10 forms to get paid.
  • Goodnough, Abby (October 29, 2015). "Groups Want Federal Health Exchange to Register Voters, Too". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. When the Affordable Care Act's new enrollment season begins next month, people seeking health insurance through the online federal exchange will also be offered something they may not expect: a chance to register to vote. ... "This is an important voting rights issue that can no longer be ignored," wrote the groups, which include the League of Women Voters, Project Vote and Demos, a liberal think tank.
  • Wines, Michael (October 12, 2016). "Florida Voter Registration Deadline Is Extended, a Win for Democrats". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2022. A federal judge has extended Florida's voter registration deadline to Oct. 18, agreeing with voting rights advocates and the state Democratic Party that damage from Hurricane Matthew threatened to deprive some residents of their right to cast a ballot. ... Both the Democrats and the League of Women Voters ... noted that as many as 181,000 Florida residents had signed up to vote in the last nine days of registration in 2012.
  • Wines, Michael (June 14, 2020). "Covid-19 Changed How We Vote. It Could Also Change Who Votes". The New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2022. In a normal election year, volunteers from the Columbus, Ohio, chapter of the League of Women Voters would have spent last weekend at the Columbus Arts Fair, pens and clipboards in hand, looking to sign up new voters among the festival's 400,000 or so attendees. This is not a normal election year. "There are absolutely no festivals this summer," said Jen Miller, the executive director of the league's state chapter. "We don't have volunteers at tables. We don't have volunteers roving with clipboards. Obviously, we're just not doing that." ... In the last major election year, 2018, League of Women Voters chapters registered 225,000 new voters nationwide, a number that would almost certainly rise sharply this year under ordinary conditions. But this month, registration efforts by the league's 750 affiliates are "probably 95 percent closed compared to what we've done in the past," the group's director of mission impact, Jeanette Senecal, said on Friday.

Absentee Ballots

  • Lewin, Tamar (September 26, 2008). "After Complaints, Postal Service Shifts Course to Provide Absentee Ballot Applications". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2022. Prompted by an article in a tiny weekly newspaper in Shelter Island, N.Y., the Postal Service on Friday reversed a national policy prohibiting post offices from distributing applications for absentee ballots. The ban had outraged the League of Women Voters and members of Congress.
  • Montgomery, David (October 2, 2020). "Voter-advocacy groups in Texas sue to block an order limiting ballot drop-off locations". The New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2022. The order, which applies to the entire state, would limit each county to just one drop-off location. ... The 19-page petition, which asks a federal judge in Austin to strike down the order as "unreasonable, unfair and unconstitutional," was filed by the Texas and National League of United Latin American Citizens, the League of Women Voters of Texas and two voters who said they would be disenfranchised by Mr. Abbott's order.
  • Tully, Tracey (March 29, 2021). "New Jersey Will Expand Voting Rights, as Some States Limit Them". The New York Times. Retrieved November 23, 2022. New Jersey, a state controlled by Democrats, will offer more than a week of early in-person voting for the first time before November's election. ... "We applaud the Legislature's commitment to removing obstacles to the ballot in recognition of the simple truth that our democracy is better when all voices can participate," Jesse Burns, executive director of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey, said in a statement.
  • Hassan, Adeel (May 10, 2021). "What's in Florida's New Voting Law?". The New York Times. Retrieved November 23, 2022. Voting rights groups filed lawsuits shortly after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation reducing voting access in the battleground state. Critics said the law will disproportionately affect people of color. ... The League of Women Voters of Florida, the Black Voters Matter Fund and the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans joined in one suit, arguing that "Senate Bill 90 does not impede all of Florida's voters equally."
  • Tully, Tracey (November 2, 2021). "Voting-rights groups sue to keep polls open in New Jersey for 90 extra minutes". The New York Times. The court application asks that polls stay open until 9:30 p.m. to offset delays linked to problems connecting new electronic poll books to the internet. ... The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and the League of Women Voters filed an application with State Superior Court on Tuesday evening, asking that polling locations be kept open until 9:30 p.m. The extension, they said, would offset morning delays linked to problems connecting new electronic polling books to the internet.

Maintenance of Voting Rolls

  • Liptak, Adam (June 11, 2018). "Supreme Court Upholds Ohio's Purge of Voting Rolls". The New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2022. The court ruled that states may kick people off the rolls if they skip a few elections and fail to respond to a notice from election officials. The vote was 5 to 4, with the more conservative justices in the majority. ... "Ohio is the only state that commences such a process based on the failure to vote in a single federal election cycle," said a brief from the League of Women Voters and the Brennan Center for Justice. "Literally every other state uses a different, and more voter-protective, practice."
  • Casey, Nicholas (October 14, 2019). "Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%". The New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2022. When Ohio released a list of people it planned to strike from its voting rolls, around 40,000 people shouldn't have been on it. The state only found out because of volunteer sleuthing. ... The state of Ohio had released names of 235,000 voters it planned to purge from voter rolls in September. Ms. Miller, director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio, believed thousands of voters were about to be wrongly removed. ... She went online and discovered that her name had also been flagged as an inactive voter. The state was in the process of removing her from its voter rolls. "I voted three times last year," said Ms. Miller. "I don't think we have any idea how many other individuals this has happened to."

Civil Liberties

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Social Justice

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  • Lewis, Jone Johnson (November 15, 2019). "The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921". ThoughtCo. DotDash Meredith. Retrieved October 21, 2022. The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921, informally called the Maternity Act, was the first federal law to provide significant funding to help people in need.
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