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First, the PowHer NY Coalition, of which LWVNYS is a member, is launching their regular pre-election voter education webinar series, PowHer the Vote.

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The November 3rd mid-term elections are six weeks away and the League of Women Voters wants citizens to be ready to make their voices heard in the voting booth. The first thing Otsego County voters may notice is that the ballot is long!

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Voting rights organizations today supplemented the complaint in their lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting to add claims against the US Postal Service’s (USPS) newly-finalized mail ballot rule. The groups simultaneously asked a federal court to immediately block USPS from implementing that rule for the November midterm elections.

The plaintiffs in this case, League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump, are the League of Women Voters, League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, Association of Americans Resident Overseas, US Vote Foundation, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. They are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Massachusetts, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, Legal Defense Fund, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, and LatinoJustice PRLDEF.

Updated Poster Challenge
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A project conceived last fall by Gretchen Sorin of the Youth Services Committee has come to fruition with the help of generous gifts and grants.

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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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The Voting Rights Act (VRA) is one of the most significant pieces of legislation in our nation’s history. It cleared the way for Black, brown, Asian American, and Native Voters to vote free from discrimination and established several protective provisions that were originally set to expire in 1970. 

Yet, as voting discrimination continued, the government recognized the necessity of extending its once-temporary provisions. Ten years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the law was reauthorized for both the purposes of extension and a new provision ending literacy tests.  

Public Statement

The League of Women Voters of the United States responds to an inquiry regarding voter registration events conducted by the League of Women Voters of Leavenworth County.

 

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On September 14, the Supreme Court ruled on League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump, a major case regarding mail-in voting. Their ruling left in place a preliminary injunction blocking the US Postal Service from enforcing a suppressive new voting rule that would severely restrict voting by mail. This is a critical win for voting rights. 

This blog reviews the Trump Administration’s recent attacks on vote-by-mail, how the League and parters took legal action, and what you can do to defend voting rights today.

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There is an effort underway to erase or diminish what it means to be Hispanic in this nation, replacing a rich and complicated history with a false narrative that treats our presence as recent, our contributions as peripheral, and our place in the United States as somehow conditional.   

We are not newcomers to the American story. We are not a footnote to it. We are not a political constituency to be courted when convenient and vilified when it is not. 

We are part of the foundational fabric of this country. 

Public Statement

Amid rising misinformation and confusion, the League mobilizes voters, celebrates election workers and marks 20 years of VOTE411.org, the trusted, nonpartisan resource helping Americans cast their ballots with confidence