Oberlin Area

National Voter Registration Day

In Solidarity with Moms Demand Action 6/2/2018

Issue 1 Marchers at the Big Parade in Oberlin

Get out the Vote postcard writing party

National Voter Registration Day

High School Voter Education Project

Oberlin Area

Because Democracy is NOT a Spectator Sport

The League of Women Voters of the Oberlin Area, the only League in Lorain County, is a nonpartisan political organization that promotes informed and active participation in government. We welcome members from the entire county.

"Today, I want to urge you to actively seek out the most contentious, polarized, gridlocked places you can find. Because so often, throughout our history, those have been the places where progress really happens - the places where minds are changed, lives transformed, where our great American story unfolds."

Michelle Obama addressing Oberlin College graduates, 2015

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Lorain County Board of Elections

1985 North Ridge Rd. East

Lorain, OH 44055

440-326-5900

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CHECK THAT YOU ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE

A Win for Fair Elections

Submitted by Oberlin Area in May 2019.

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Event Date:

Jun 1 2019 - 11:00am

Event location:

The Hotel at Oberlin

Register for this event by clicking on the blue box below (it will take you to a Paypal page) or you may send a check for $15/person to LWVOA, PO Box 543, Oberlin, OH 44074.

Greg Coleridge is Outreach Director of Move to Amend.

Find personalized voting, ballot and polling place information.

100 YEARS AGO

1919: Indiana secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment in 1917. Rendered doubtful by a court decision, the law was re-enacted with but six dissenting votes.

1919: Maine secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment after defeat of a constitutional amendment in 1917.

1919: Missouri secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment after defeat of a constitutional amendment in 1916.

1919: Iowa secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment after defeat of a constitutional amendment in 1916.

1919: Minnesota secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment.

1919: Ohio secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment after defeat of referendum on the law in 1917 and of a constitutional amendment in 1912 and 1914.

1919: Wisconsin secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment after defeat of a constitutional amendment in 1912.

1919: Tennessee secures presidential suffrage by legislative enactment.

January 6, 1919: In an urn directly in line with the White House front door, the National Woman's Party builds a perpetual "watchfire for freedom" in which they burn the words of every hypocritical speech President Wilson gives about democracy.

March 24, 1919: Carrie Chapman Catt proposes the formation of a league of women voters to "finish the fight." The occasion was the 50th Anniversary Jubilee Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in St. Louis.

Spring 1919: The most prominent National Woman's Party suffrage prisoners (including Havemeyer, Rogers, Milholland, Winsor, Vernon) tour the country on a train called the "Prison Special." At each stop they speak about the need for suffrage and their prison experiences; between stops they threw suffrage literature out the windows for farming communities.

May 21, 1919: The House of Representatives passes the federal woman suffrage amendment, 304 to 89, a margin of 42 votes over the required two-thirds majority. Opponents block action in the Senate for another two weeks, delaying ratification as most legislatures had adjourned for the year.

June 4, 1919: The Senate passes the Nineteenth Amendment with just two votes to spare, 56 to 25. Drafted by Susan B. Anthony and first introduced in 1878 with the same wording, it is now sent to the states for ratification.

League of Women Voters ^®
of Oberlin Area

Oberlin Area

National Voter Registration Day

In Solidarity with Moms Demand Action 6/2/2018

Issue 1 Marchers at the Big Parade in Oberlin

March for Our Lives

Get out the Vote postcard writing party

National Voter Registration Day

Membership Event

Painting the Rock for Vote411

High School Voter Education Project

Oberlin Area

Because Democracy is NOT a Spectator Sport

The League of Women Voters of the Oberlin Area, the only League in Lorain County, is a nonpartisan political organization that promotes informed and active participation in government. We welcome members from the entire county.

A Win for Fair Elections

2019 Annual Meeting

100 YEARS AGO

League of Women Voters ^® of Oberlin Area

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