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Videos of Candidates Night (Oberlin) and Issues Night (Lorain County)

Submitted by Lorain County in October 2023.

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To watch videos of Candidates and Issues Nights, please click on the following links:

Video of 6/11/21 Annual Meeting

Submitted by Lorain County in July 2021.

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This is the youtube link to Kevin Roose's remarks

How to Tame the Internet

An Evening with Jen Miller

Submitted by Lorain County in October 2019.

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The League of Women Voters of the Oberlin Area was pleased to welcome Jen Miller, Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio, to speak with us on October 8, 2019. Jen spoke about the League and various audience requested topics. Click on "Read More" to access the video and audio files.

Submitted by Lorain County in June 2019.

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Commemorate the 100th anniversary (February 14, 2020) of the founding of the League of Women Voters and the 100th anniversary of Women's Suffrage (August 26, 2020) by reading a book about suffrage history or the continuing battle for voting rights

Submitted by Lorain County in June 2019.

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If you haven't renewed your membership yet, please do so as soon as possible. All non-renewed memberships expire at the end of our fiscal year on June 30.
Primary Membership - $60
Each additional person living in same household - $30
You may send a check for your membership amount to:
LWVOA Membership
PO Box 543
Oberlin, OH 44074

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The League of Women Voters was born from such a struggle. The 19th Amendment was finally included in the US Constitution on August 26, 1920

On February 14,1920, the League was formed on the premise that a nonpartisan civic organization could provide the education and experience the public needed to assure the success of democracy. Founder Carrie Chapman Catt exclaimed that the League was formed to “finish the fight” to win national woman suffrage. Yet within the struggle for the right to vote, we left some of our sisters behind when the 75-year fight for votes for women didn’t include securing these rights for women of color. And that struggle continued for decades until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

And now today, across the states, barriers to voting are being erected to disenfranchise communities of color, people of low-income, students, and people with disabilities. All eligible voters should be able to cast a ballot confidently, proudly, and without additional requirements that prevent them from voting. It is clear that the “fight” remains unfinished. From this vantage point, looking back while planning ahead, we’re committed to remembering and commemorating the accomplishments of all those who fought for our right to vote while advocating for voting reforms and defending democracy. And that the work of the League is needed as much now as it was at its founding.

League of Women Voters ^®
of Lorain County

Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy.

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