Candidates Forum

Holiday Inn French Quarter, Perrysburg, Depot Conference Center

10630 Fremont Pike US 20 @ I-75 exit 193)

Perrysburg Ohio

Ohio US

Sunday, October 7, 2018 - 2:00pm to Monday, October 8, 2018 - 1:45pm

Your chance to meet 2nd District Board of Education Candidates and others

Doors open at 1:30 p.m.
Program begins at 2:00 p.m.

Holiday Inn French Quarter, Perrysburg
Depot Conference Center

10630 Fremont Pike, Perrysburg
(US20 @ I-75 exit 193)

Sponsored by

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Debra Greenley Gorman
Chair, Voter Services

League of Women Voters Perrysburg Area

419.343.3627

Debra.GreenleyGorman [at] gmail.com

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