Marilyn McLeod, Patricia O'Roark, President Kay Park, Nancy Copenhaver, Anne Sappington, Joan Hubbard, Joan Gentry, Sherry Buchanan, Beth Franklin, Mahree Skala and Sheryl Eufinger. Not pictured is Greg Woodhams.
LWVMO President Marilyn McLeod is often in Jefferson City, testifying against anti-voter legislation. The League's top legislative priority in 2025 is to protect the citizen initiative petition process.
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.
So are we. The number of issues and petitions on the Missouri Ballot may overwhelm voters. Here is a list of member priorities that will support Missouri voters.
LWVMO Guide to State Action (2025-2027): Supports standards for apportionment to make congressional and legislative districts as compact, contiguous, and as nearly equal in population as possible
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued a rule barring LWV from providing voter registration services at Naturalization Ceremonies held at USCIS facilities.
Governor Kehoe's August 29 call to Missouri lawmakers to return to the Capitol to gerrymander the congressional map and put a constitutional amendment to change the initiative petition process on the ballot in 2026 has resulted in this response from the League of Women Voters of Missouri.
The Environmental Legislative Summit is intended for organizations and community groups to work together on legislative proposals and advocacy strategies to protect the public health and environment of Missouri.
COMING SOON: Beginning in September we will begin having statewide Zoom Voter Power Hour every other month. We will focus on issues that affect us all. Our members and new members want to do more to protect our democracy and the due process of law. Our first meeting will start with the exactly that: Democracy: What can we do?
Dear Governor Kehoe, I am contacting you to consider appointing a teacher to the Missouri State Board of Education. The General Assembly passed a bill in 2018 that requires the Governor to a appoint a teacher representative to the State Board of Education.
“From the flagrant disregard for congressional authority and governmental checks and balances to defying Supreme Court orders...one thing is abundantly clear: our country is in a constitutional crisis.
The theme for the 2025 convention was Women Defend Democracy with a keynote speech by Emily Regier, a professor in the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.
