Missouri

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Tell the Senate to Vote No on the SAVE Act

House Passes SAVE Act

Requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote would disenfranchise many eligible citizens.

Marilyn McLeod with members in the Capitol rotunda

Voting Rights Advocacy

Members were in Jeff City in January asking members to protect direct democracy, election workers and rights restoration.

105 Years of Empowering Voters and Defending Democracy

Founded in October 1919

LWVMO Celebrates 105th Anniversary

VOTE411 - Nonpartisan Election Information You Need

Online Voters Guide

Go to VOTE411.org for nonpartisan information on candidates and ballot measures.

Leaguers support Fair Wages & Paid Sick Leave

Spring Conference

Members appreciated initiative petition updates from M’Evie Mead from Jobs with Justice and Kennedy Moore from Missourians for Constitutional Freedom,

Board

2023-25 Board

Delegates to the May 6 convention approved the slate by acclamation.

Marilyn McLeod, Jean Dugan and Sharon Schneeberger in the Missouri Capitol

Voting Rights Advocacy Day

Marilyn McLeod, Jean Dugan and Sharon Schneeberger in the Capitol.

 

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Testifying in Jeff City

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.

VOTE411 - election information you need

Moving Forward Together

The League is proud to offer a statewide nonpartisan voting guide at VOTE411.org. 

SOS

Complying with HB1878

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.

Marilyn

HB1878

The League is challenging provisions of HB1878 in court.

Missouri

Defend Amendment 3
News

Politicians attempt to restore abortion ban.

57.6 percent of Missourians supported higher minimum wage and paid sick leave
News

Politicians try to overturn Prop A that was supported by over 1.6 million Missourians.

Initiative Petitions Make Missouri's Democracy Work
News

Ask the Governor to reject SB 22, the “Let Politicians Lie Act.”

The anti-voter SAVE Act would disenfranchise voters
News

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would require citizenship documentation to register to vote.

Women Defend Democracy
Event Date: 
06/07/2025 - 9:00am to 3:00pm
Event location: 

Boone Electric Cooperative

The theme for the 2025 convention is Women Defend Democracy. Cost is the same as in 2023: $40 for each delegate or observer, which includes the cost of lunch and all printed mailings and convention materials.

It's hard to see any benefit in erasing the achievements of women and minorities.
News

“Erasing history and the story of people’s lives is an outrageous abdication of everything that humanity, and certainly our democracy, stands for and can also lead to terrible consequences to people’s health and safety,” LWVMO President Mari

Real ID Requirements
News

Get a REAL ID by May 7.

LWV Response to Trump Administration's Weaponization of Government
News

"As an organization committed to empowering voters and defending democracy, the League is outraged by the current administration’s actions against the American people. We are equally concerned about the inaction of our elected officials in Congress to exercise their constitutional authority and put a stop to this attack on democratic institutions, Americans, and the rule of law..." - LWV CEO Celina Stewart

Marilyn McLeod, Nancy Copenhaver, Donna Harlan and Patricia O'Roark
Event Date: 
01/28/2025 - 11:00am

More than a dozen League members from across the state joined hundreds of other voting rights advocates in the Capitol rotunda on January 28.

We are pleased that the court recognized that these restrictions in HB1878 were unreasonable and violated our constitutional rights."

Judge Jon Beetem has made permanent an injunction blocking  four provisions of HB1878 challenged by the League of Women Voters of Missouri (LWVMO) and the Missouri State Conference of the NAACP, finding “they are overbroad and impair a wide swath of constitutionally protected rights of speech, expression, and association.”

Text of the ERA
News

President Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment has become part of our Constitution.

Nancy Copenhaver and Marilyn McLeod with ACLU of Missouri attorneys Gillian Wilcox and  Kristin Mulvey, and Rod Chapel of  the  Missouri NAACP State Conference.
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Judge Jon Beetem issued a decision on Nov. 25 allowing strict photo ID rules to stay in place.