League of Women Voters ^®
of Connecticut

In Connecticut, the elected Legislature has been designated as the entity responsible for redistricting. Read Part 2 of a 5 Part Summer Series by Joan Twiggs, Director at Large LWVCT. Each blog will include one or more actions you can take to get involved.

Read Laura Smits' letter to our members and the public.

This was an unusual Legislative Session. We owe a BIG THANK YOU to all the legislators and League members for their strong support of our work to Empower Voters and Defend Democracy. We will continue the work to make Early Voting and No Excuse Absentee Voting realities for all Connecticut voters, election officials, and poll workers. Read on to find out what happened during the General and Special Session.

Hearst Media: The historic 1878 State Capitol building, with its dozens of statues and displays of historic artifacts, will soon become more-inclusive, when a plaque honoring 29 Black women suffragists of the early 20th century is cast and installed in what advocates hope to be a public celebration.
The two-by-three-foot bronze plaque is being made for the Connecticut League of Women Voters, who got the go-ahead from the little-known Capitol Preservation and Restoration Commission to provide some equity and expand on an honor roll of white suffragettes that was installed on a wall inside the Capitol’s south entrance in 1934.