Voting Rights

Voting Rights

Voting is a fundamental right and all eligible voters should have the equal opportunity to exercise that right. We are dedicated to ensuring that our elections remain free, fair and accessible.

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Dear Members,
When you receive this edition of the Voter, the Florida legislative regular session will have ended. We can look back with pride at the efforts League made in the fight to maintain free and fair elections and many other causes that League members cherish. Although we lost many fights, we are now ready to organize for the upcoming election season and the beginning of a new League year.

LWV Westport
Event Date: 
Mar 25 2022 07:00 pm
Event location: 

Westport Library

Voter Education Series

Know Your Town: Board of Finance

May 25th, 2022 7:00PM

Ranked choice voting
Event Date: 
Mar 31 2022 06:30 pm
Event location: 

Zoom

Learn about Ranked Choice Voting and the citizen led movement to bring this must-have election reform to our state. Jonathan Perloe of Voter Choice CT will lead an educational forum that will begin with an overview of our current “plurality voting” system, then explain how Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) works and why it gives voters a better way to express their preferences and produces more representative election outcomes.

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News

How the US Has Shifted Away from Pro-voter Legislation

By Betsy Lawson, formerly a senior lobbyist at LWVUS

Event Date: 
May 04 2022 12:00 am to 01:30 pm

Topic: Ranked Choice Voting (additional info below)

Event Date: 
Apr 20 2022 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

Members of the  Syracuse LWV will discuss the pros and cons of  Board of Elections Administration Structure and Voting Rights for Incarcerated Individuals. 

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LWV is an organization fully committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in principle and in practice. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to the organization’s current and future success in engaging all individuals, households, communities, and policy makers in creating a more perfect democracy.

Action Alerts

It's time to take action against election bills currently moving through the Idaho Legislature. These bills make voting more difficult. There is no evidence of voter fraud in Idaho and these are unnecessary. 

Black Woman Voting
News

The Women of Bloody Sunday

By: Lilly McGee

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Action Alerts

Sign up by Thursday March 3 at 3PM to testify for the virtual public hearing to discuss two bills, one allowing COVID to be a valid reason to use absentee ballots for the November 2022 election, and the other allowing for the amendment of the current statute which defines the criteria for obtaining an absentee ballot to include the fear of illness, such as during a public health emergency like a pandemic.

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