LWVMO President Marilyn McLeod is often in Jefferson City, testifying against anti-voter legislation. The League's top legislative priority in 2024 is to protect the citizen initiative petition process.
Hybrid Fall Conference featured exceptional speakers. Topics included tips on testifying, a key Supreme Court case, rural hospital closures, and maternal and infant mortality.
Members delivered more than 100 signed voter solicitation forms to the Secretary of State’s office on Sept. 7 to comply with HB1878. A temporary injunction has those new restrictions on hold.
A record 50-year filibuster in the Missouri Senate blocked passage of a proposal to eliminate the majority rule that has defined Missouri’s citizen initiative process for more than a century. If the two chambers had agree on final language f
The campaign to restore reproductive rights in Missouri collected 380,159 petition signatures in just three months and turned them in to the Missouri Secretary of State’s office on May 3.
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to reconsider a troubling decision that blocks individual voters and groups such as the NAACP and the League of Women Voters from challenging discriminatory voting practices or maps in c
The General Assembly stopped funding a presidential preference primary in an omnibus election bill in 2022 (HB1878) and turned it over to the political parties.
The League of Women Voters of Missouri and Missouri NAACP are challenging several sections of a new anti-voter law in court, including requiring an unexpired government-issued photo ID to vote.
Anticipating that efforts to close the primary in 2024 will intensify, MOVPC and Open Primaries are partnering to build awareness about this attack on democracy.
Since Judge Jon Beetem issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging provisions of HB1878, the state cannot enforce new restrictions on voter registration and absentee ballot solicitation until after the court hears the case and issues
The U.S. Supreme Court just rejected a theory in Moore v. Harper that would have given state legislatures nearly unrestricted authority to set the rules for federal elections.
Vivian Gibson, author of The Last Children of Mill Creek, shared her memories of growing up in a segregated St. Louis neighborhood named Mill Creek with the LWVMO DEI book club on Feb. 26.
Members enjoyed the election documentary No Time to Fail on Sept. 25. After the film, a panel of election officials discussed the challenges they faced in 2020 and expect in 2024. We heard from St.
