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Program Planning  2026

Learn more about Program Planning and join us on February 24 for Pizza and Conversation as our League Plans LWVUS Program for 2026.

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Why Your Vote is Safe and Secure!

Patty MacLeish, Director of Communications, LWV of the Cooperstown Area

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Don't spread mis- or dis-information. Check out LWVNY's "Just the Facts" list about voting security.

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Voting—Casting a Ballot Keeps Getting Easier!

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Learning To Identify Misinformation and Disinformation

By Patty MacLeish and Aviva Schneider

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Throughout the first year of the 119th Congress, the League of Women Voters did advocacy work around legislation with significant implications for both our democracy and the people within it. This blog looks back at five of the most consequential legislative battles of 2025, as well as their implications for our country and the League’s 2026 advocacy work. 

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A coalition of voting rights organizations filed a lawsuit today in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts challenging President Trump's March 31 executive order concerning mail-in voting. 

Public Statement

Voting rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida House Bill 991, a new law requiring documentary proof of citizenship, warning that the measure will disenfranchise eligible voters and create unnecessary barriers to the freedom to vote

Public Statement

The League of Women Voters issued the following statement in response to the president’s executive order, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections.”

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Column published by The New York Times