As you may have seen in the news, on Monday President Donald Trump posted that he will lead a "movement" to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines, claiming, without providing evidence, that they lead to voter fraud.
Read the statement by the League of Women Voters CEO Celina Stewart, Esq. in response to the Department of Justice’s actions to gather data on voters ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
(Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160073)
ICE’s operations in Los Angeles and around California mark a troubling escalation – workplace raids coupled with the arrest of community members exercising their First Amendment rights to observe and protest.
July is Disability Pride Month. Voters with disabilities still face many barriers to casting their ballots. The work to make the vote more accessible is ongoing. Read the