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18 Oct 2011, 11:26 am by Michael Reiter, Attorney at Law
  The bullet points say: Born and raised in San Bernardino Graduate of San Bernardino Valley College and University of California, Riverside Senior Legislative Assistant for the State of California Assembly Experience with local, county, state and federal legislation, codes and statutes A person of integrity: Selected by Supervisor Josie Gonzales and received the “Herstory  Award” from the SB County Commission on the Status of Women; “Citizen Achievement… [read post]
15 Oct 2011, 5:11 am by Rick Hasen
·         Democracy Network, the nation’s first and largest online source of candidate debates and voter information, which CGS prototyped in 1994, launched in 1996, built a Spanish-language version for Venezuela in 1998, installed in the nation’s first digital cable network, Time Warner’s state-of-the-art “Full Service Network in Orlando, Florida, partnered with AOL and 1998 and 2000 to offer candidate information to… [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 9:05 am by Lovechilde
Tea Partiers have been a mixed blessing for the GOP establishment – a source of new ground troops and energy but also a pain in the assets with regard to attracting independent voters. [read post]
8 Oct 2011, 12:57 pm by Edward A. Fallone
In August 2011, The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin publicly announced its intention to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new Wisconsin Voter ID law. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 9:31 am by Lovechilde
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 by Andrew Ramonas
” 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 by Associated Press
(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 by Lovechilde
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 by Karen Tani
  Subscribers may read "Don't Marry a Christian," Amanda Vickery's review of Women in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Longman), by Margaret R. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 11:52 am by Edward A. Fallone
  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 by csc4
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]
8 Aug 2011, 8:44 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
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 by Dan Tokaji
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 by Frank O'Donnell, Clean Air Watch
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 by Rick Hasen
TPM offers this report, part of a new “Crackdown on Voting” series. [read post]