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7 Apr 2014, 2:15 pm by Legal Talk Network
Prior to joining the ACLU, she was a voting rights counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice, where she successfully represented the League of Women Voters of Florida and others in constitutional challenges to Florida's 2011 election law. [read post]
25 May 2020, 6:40 am by Leila Rafei
The ACLU, the ACLU of Florida, the Brennan Center, and the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund immediately sued Florida on behalf of Betty, a dozen other people with felony convictions fighting to restore their right to vote, and organizations including the Florida NAACP and League of Women Voters of Florida, that help register eligible voters. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 9:12 am by Dawn Quarles
Citing the onerous new rules, many groups, including the League of Women Voters, have stopped registering voters in the state. [read post]
However, recent state law changes and an agreement between New York and the League of Women Voters will give voters the opportunity to correct technical errors or o [read post]
” The nine unions that signed were the Basketball Players Union, Major League Soccer Players Association, National Football League Players Association, National Women’s Hockey League Players’ Association, National Women’s Soccer League Players Association, Professional Women’s Hockey League Players Association, United States Women’s National Team Players Association, and… [read post]
3 Apr 2015, 11:00 am by Maureen Johnston
League of Women Voters of North Carolina 14-780Issue: (1) Whether the court of appeals erred by effectively incorporating into Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act the retrogression standard applicable only to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act; and (2) whether the preliminary injunction ordered by the Fourth Circuit subjected North Carolina to a de facto preclearance standard in derogation of North Carolina’s constitutional prerogative to enact laws governing the… [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 9:23 am
Headlines from Death Penalty Information Center: Jury Strikes and Racial Bias New Voices: Florida League of Women Voters Calls for Halt to Executions Lethal Injection Developments Spur Further Controversy in California and Missouri Texas Medical Examiner No Longer Stands by Testimony that sent Woman to Death Row New Voices: Former FBI Chief Expresses Concerns about Innocence and the Death Penalty New Resources: Scientific American Examines "The Mysteries of… [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 2:41 pm by Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU
House Bill 4549, modeled after a Florida law that forced the League of Women Voters and other civic organizations to abandon voter registration efforts in the state, would effectively shut down community-based voter registration drives in South Carolina, requiring any individual or organization to register with the state before assisting other South Carolinians in registering to vote, and subjecting those individuals or organizations to up to… [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 9:16 am by Connor Clerkin, Lane Corrigan
In the 2020 primaries, more than 50,000 ballots were rejected for arriving late, including more than 20,000 in Florida alone. [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]
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… [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 12:19 pm by Matt Coles, Center for Equality
In Florida, the League of Women Voters was so intimidated, it stopped registering voters. [read post]