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Birthdays and Ballots
Public Statement
Did you know that the drop-off between registering to vote – and actually voting – is twice as steep for young people?
Ranked Choice Voting at Pollyanna in Roselle
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The League of Women Voters of Roselle/Bloomingdale hosted our Fall Kickoff event at Pollyanna Brewing Company in Roselle on Monday, September 20, 2021.

The Unique Challenges of the Upcoming School Year
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The unique challenges of the upcoming school year

Drinks & Dialog August 25, 2021 Meeting Summary

2021 Taste of Roselle - Rank Choice Voting with the Rose Queen
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What is Ranked Choice Voting?

Home Rule and YOU!
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 Home Rule and YOU! 
June 16, 2021 Meeting Summary

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Public Statement

A District Court in Maryland has granted a preliminary injunction and ordered that the Trump administration must restore AmeriCorps funding to a broad coalition that sued over illegal cuts to grants. 

Blog Post

In this new world, the burden of discerning what is true or false falls on each of us individually. Social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram have not fully tried to correct harmful falsehoods on their platforms. Meta’s small programs, such as Community Notes, a way for people to add more context to confusing and misleading posts, or YouTube links to vetted information, play a small yet inconsequential role in spreading mis-, dis-, and mal-information. 

So the responsibility falls to us — as parents, friends, colleagues and, above all, as citizens — to develop the skills needed to navigate a highly polluted information ecosystem. 

Public Statement

LWV of Texas and LWV of the US issued the following joint statement in response to devastating flooding in Central Texas over the weekend.

Blog Post

Since the Trump administration took office in January 2025, we’ve seen increased attacks on our democratic systems and a failure by Congress to intervene. This came to a head in early April, when the president defied a Supreme Court order to return the wrongfully deported Marylander Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. 

Public Statement

Washington, DC — Today, President Trump signed into law a budget reconciliation package, officially titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” that will drastically cut health care for millions of Americans. In response, the League of Women Voters of the United States issued the following statement:  

“On the day we should be celebrating America, instead, President Trump and his allies are attempting to systematically dismantle the very reason for this holiday and put our country in harm's way by ripping away health care from millions of Americans.