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LWV Membership Meeting
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Local Leaguers are coming together to understand the new national membership system for the LWV. The group pictured here met at Pat DeSalvo's home on January 29 to particpate in an information session led by League President Nicki Junkins.

Can I vote?
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Special Primary  

Election Day

Tuesday, January 28, 2025.      7:00am - 7:00pm

Deadline to Request a Vote by Mail Ballot
5:00pm on Thursday, January 16, 2025

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LWVVC League President
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On October 16, 2024, LWVVC President, Nicki Junkins, was the guest speaker at the Victoria Gardens Woman’s Club luncheon in DeLand. Her topic was The Fight for Woman’s Suffrage.

Postcard Signing Amendment 4
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On September 12, 2024, 29 individuals gathered at Unitarian Universalist Church of Ormond Beach to write postcards supporting Amendment 4, Protecting Women's Health and Freedom to Make her Own Health Decisions.

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Blog Post

A significant number of anti-voter lawsuits were filed that sought to disrupt election administration and purge eligible voters from the rolls around the 2024 federal election. The League of Women Voters of the United States (“LWVUS”) monitored these eleventh-hour anti-voter lawsuits, including the substantial amount of voter purge lawsuits. 

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On January 20, Inauguration Day, the next president and vice president of the United States will be sworn into office in front of the US Capitol Building. As part of the peaceful transfer of power, the two men will recite their Oaths of Office, swearing to protect and defend the US Constitution and to enact their duties faithfully. 

As our democracy anticipates unprecedented challenges, there could be no better time to pledge our own oath to protect and preserve democracy. Here’s ours. 

Blog Post

Over a century after our founding — and the passage of the 19th amendment that granted many women the right to vote — some people question why the League of Women Voters keeps the word ‘women’ in our name. 

To me, now more than ever, it’s clear that “women” is an essential part of our name — and always will be.

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This was originally published by The Salt Lake Tribune.

LWV of Utah's president Katharine Biele was voted by readers of The Salt Lake Tribune as 2024 Utahn of the Year.

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This opinion was originally published in the Savannah Morning News.

Chassidy Malloy, president of LWV of Coastal Georgia, shares the impact community engagement has on voter turnout.