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Take Action: Urge Governor Lamont to support HB 7229 to ensure ballot access to eligible voters in state custody

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Submitted by Connecticut in May 2025.

Action Alerts

Ensure all voices are heard at the ballot box. Tell the Governor to support HB 7229 to provide absentee ballot applications to eligible voters in state custody.

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Take Action: Tell Our Legislators to Fully Fund the Connecticut Voting Rights Act

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Submitted by Connecticut in May 2025.

Action Alerts

Before Friday, urge your legislators to do everything they can to ensure that the Connecticut Voting Rights Act (CTVRA) stays in the budget. The CTVRA is the nation’s most comprehensive state-level voting rights act. Yet, Connecticut voters face persistent barriers to equal participation for voters of color and people whose first language isn’t English. To remain the national leader and implement the CTVRA, Connecticut must adequately fund its protections in the 2025 biennial budget.

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LWVW Annual Meeting 2025

Submitted by Wellesley in May 2025.

Event Date: 
05/29/2025 - 6:00pm
Event location: 

Home of Barbara McMahon

League of Women Voters Wellesley

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Voter Services Meeting

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Submitted by Alachua County in May 2025.

Event Date: 
05/07/2025 - 6:30pm

Join Voter Services for their next meeting where they will recap the candidate forums and elections for the cities of Alachua and Newberry and begin planning for the Hawthorne elections in June.

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Kathi's Test Page

Once upon a time there was a very little girl who played the violin for pieces of coin on the streets of Rome. She played in what was known as the Jewish Ghetto so that all who came to pay their respects would be haunted by her music and offer her money. She also had a cat who would glare at the passers by, daring them not to pay her mistress for her music.

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SC DMV changes system to allow 17-year-olds to register to vote, ending legal challenges

Submitted by South Carolina in April 2025.

Press Mention

South Carolina Daily Gazette

Following the threat of a lawsuit by the SC ACLU, League of Women Voters, and NAACP, the SC DMV will collect information from anyone 16 and older who selects that they would like to register to vote, which it will then send to the state Election Commission.

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An Analysis of the "SAVE ACT" and Voting Executive Order

Click here to read the analysis.

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Voter Girl

Voter Girl is a program developed by the Kent, Ohio League in conjunction with the Girl Scout Council of OH.

Submitted by North Carolina in April 2025.

Event Date: 
04/05/2025 - 8:30am
Event location: 

Girl Scouts Hornet's Nest Council

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HANDS OFF Rally

Submitted by Oxford in April 2025.

Event Date: 
04/06/2025 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Event location: 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park (Uptown)

Oxford residents have organized a HANDS OFF rally for Sunday April 6 at noon.

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Voter Services Meeting

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Submitted by Alachua County in March 2025.

Event Date: 
04/02/2025 - 6:30pm

Join Voter Services for their next meeting where they will recap the candidate forums for the cities of Alachua and Newberry and outline plans for get out the vote efforts for those elections on April 8.

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