The LWVUS is Fighting to Protect Voting Rights

By: Becky Newman

Today's League of Women Voters is led by women and men as fierce and determined as many of those who fought for women's suffrage – and, over time, people of color and others prevented from voting!

In fact, on Tuesday October 19, 2021, Virginia Kase Solomón, Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS), was one of at least 25 leaders from the civil rights and faith communities and elected officials from all levels of government arrested for picketing for voting rights legislation outside the White House.
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Nonetheless, on Wednesday 10/20/21, the United States Senate failed to pass landmark voting rights legislation – the Freedom to Vote Act – which Solomón described as "the most significant voting rights bill in generations." 

Solomón also called for filibuster reform to "break through the gridlock and pass meaningful voting rights legislation."
  Read her full statement