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23 Sep 2011, 9:31 am
Florida and Texas made it harder for groups like the League of Women Voters to register new voters. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 3:20 pm
The event is cosponsored by the League of Women Voters and the California Supreme Court Historical Society. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 9:05 am
” The letter’s signatories include The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Center for Responsive Politics, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Common Cause, Fix Congress First, the League of Women Voters of the United States, MapLight, OMB Watch, OpentheGovernment.org, Project On Government Oversight, Public Citizen, The Sunlight Foundation, Taxpayers for Common Sense and the U.S. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 9:20 am
(AP) – A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s new law requiring photo identification be shown at the polls will be filed in the next week or two, the head of the state chapter of the League of Women Voters told the election oversight board Monday. [read post]
10 Sep 2011, 3:02 am
In 1916, when she was 36 years told and national women's enfranchisement was still 4 years away, voters in her native state of Montana chose Rankin, the field secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, to represent them in Congress. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 6:24 am
Berman provides a list of a dozen states that have approved these obstacles to voting thus far: Kansas and Alabama now require proof of citizenship to register to vote; Florida and Texas have erected barriers to groups like the League of Women Voters to register new voters; Maine repealed a 1973 law that permitted Election Day voter registration; Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia cut short their early voting periods; Florida… [read post]
4 Sep 2011, 2:00 am
Subscribers may read "Don't Marry a Christian," Amanda Vickery's review of Women in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Longman), by Margaret R. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 3:00 pm
The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin says the law violates the state Constitution, which authorizes lawmakers to take the right to vote from two groups: felons and those a court deems incompetent. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 1:30 pm
Pittsburgh League of Young Voters Education Fund v. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 11:52 am
Today, there is news that the League of Women Voters will file a lawsuit contending that the new Voter ID law contravenes the right to vote contained in the Wisconsin Constitution. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 8:10 am
In July, the League of Women Voters and Ohio Citizen Action kicked off a competition where private citizens can draw state legislative and congressional districts for Ohio using the same population and election data used by public officials. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 1:00 pm
The League of Women Voters of Illinois claims in a federal suit that the boundaries for state and Congressional districts were recently drawn by Democrats in violation of the Constitution, the Chicago Tribune reports. [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 8:44 am
The coalition, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the League of Women Voters of South Carolina [advocacy websites], argued in a letter [text, PDF] to the DOJ that the new law would suppress the minority... [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 12:36 pm
See this story on this letter from the ACLU, Lawyers Committee, Brennan Center, and League of Women Voters. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 9:45 am
The agency should do so promptly by mid-summer as promised, in order to start the long overdue processof delivering clean air to the American people.We urge you to act now and support truly protective ozone standards.Sincerely,AlabamaAmerican Lung Association in AlabamaCahaba RiverkeeperChildren's Environmental ProtectionAlliance and Community ForumsAlaskaAmerican Lung Association in AlaskaGillepsieHall Health and WellnessMarketingWestern Resource AdvocatesArizonaAmerican Lung Association in… [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 8:09 am
TPM offers this report, part of a new “Crackdown on Voting” series. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 2:17 pm
Here. [read post]
26 Jun 2011, 8:39 pm
This letter was sent to the Commissioners beginning: On behalf of AARP, Advancement Project, California Common Cause, California Chamber of California Forward, Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE), The Greenlining Institute, League of Women Voters of California, and The Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College, we write to provide specific recommendations to ensure that the Commission draws districts that… [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 8:50 am
In League of Women Voters v. [read post]
24 May 2011, 4:58 am
UPDATE: Reader Jane Woodworth emails: “In Sturbridge last weekend several tea parties had a stand out at the site of the League of Women Voter’s annual meeting to protest their decidedly partisan positions on Massachusetts politics. [read post]
