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The Cape Gazette featured an article about the Sussex County LWV's November League, Libations, and Learning meeting with guest speaker Kim Hoey Stevenson.

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11/14/23 update on the Sussex County Council and Planning & Zoning Commission workshop that was held in September.

Informing Voters. Empowering people
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Sussex LWV members will be gathering at the Lewes Library on November 25, from 10-2, to develop our Get Out The Vote (GOTV) campaign and to determine what we want our local League to look like in the next couple of years. We need your energy, ideas and know-how. Please join us if you are able.

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The Cape Gazette published an article on the November 14th meeting of the LWVSCDE at which Kim Hoey Stevenson, former vice-chair of Sussex County Planning and Zoning Commission, will be the guest speaker.

Welcome to Sussex County
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The LWVSC Observer Corps attended the joint workshop held by the Sussex County Council and the Planning & Zoning Commission on 9/21 and reported on the key takeaways.

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Public Statement

WASHINGTON — The League of Women Voters of the United States issued the following statement on the passing of first female US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: 

 

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On the final day of Pride month, June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled in favor of a business owner seeking to discriminate against LGBTQIA+ persons, striking a blow against Americans’ right to live free from discrimination. The ones who should have upheld principles of equality and fairness — our nation’s highest Court — failed. 

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NASHVILLE – The League of Women Voters of Tennessee and Tennessee voters Victor Ashe and Phil Lawson filed a federal lawsuit today challenging state laws that require voters to be “bona fide” members of a political party to vote in the state’s open primary elections. Plaintiffs argue that the laws create confusion and intimidation because voters in Tennessee do not register with a party and there is no way to determine what “bona fide” means. The plaintiffs are represented by the law firms Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, Baker Donelson and Sidley Austin LLP, and Protect Democracy. 

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This story was originally published in Votebeat.

Plaintiffs including the NAACP and League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania applauded the ruling.

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This story was originally published in Associated Press.

Voting rights activists plan to meet next week to discuss legal recourse around restoring fair access to ballots, said Debbie Pantenburg, spokesperson for the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of Mississippi.

“Our membership is outraged that the lack of ballots happened in a historically underrepresented region of our state,” Pantenburg said.

She said the league wants Watson to investigate and publish a report detailing how the problems happened.