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The November 2025 Special Election

Posted on Sep 14, 2025 in

Proposition 50  AUTHORIZES TEMPORARY CHANGES TO CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT MAPS IN RESPONSE TO TEXAS' PARTISAN REDISTRICTING. LEGISLATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. • In response to Texas' mid-decade partisan congres...

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JOIN VOTER SERVICE 2025!

Posted on Sep 11, 2025 in

Voter Service 2025 Special Election Meetings, beginning September 11th! The Voter Service Team meetings on Thursdays, 5- 6 PM. over Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86266944238 Join us where we will all learn about and...

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League Day at SUFFS

Posted on Aug 12, 2025 in

A MUSICAL ABOUT WOMEN AND THE VOTE When: Saturday, October 25, the 7:30 pm performance only. Where: The Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. Visit their website: https://suffsmusical.com Thanks to the work of LWV San...

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Helene Lecar Civic Engagement Program Interns Get Ready!

Posted on Sep 16, 2025 in

A brand new team of League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville (LWVBAE) interns has arrived this fall! The first meeting was held by League President Kandea Mosley Gandhi and former Communications Intern,...

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“Use It or Lose It” Purges & College Students’ Right to Vote

Posted on Sep 15, 2025 in

Students are an increasingly influential population in our democracy, boasting some 40 million eligible voters. Given this figure, students are a key demographic for strengthening youth voter turnout. ...

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Eliminating Mail-in Ballots and Voting Machines

Posted on Sep 15, 2025 in

WASHINGTON — The League of Women Voters CEO, Celina Stewart, Esq., issued the following statement in response to President Trump's vow to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines: “Free, fair, and accessible el...

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Labor Day Turnout

Posted on Sep 09, 2025 in

National Labor Day Has Fantastic Turnout  Joining over one thousand protests across the country, several of which stretched across the Bay Area, about 600 local residents turned out despite the blazing Labor Day sun in...

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LWV California - No Position on Prop 50 (Mid-cycle Redistricting)

Posted on Sep 03, 2025 in

For League of Women Voters of California’s recent statement on Prop 50, see: https://lwvc.org/prop50/ . The League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany, and Emeryville (LWVBAE) is painfully aware of the campaign mail...

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Vote16 National Convening

Posted on Sep 01, 2025 in

UCLA hosted this year’s Vote16 National Convening. The energy was high as hundreds of young changemakers, civic engagement leaders, policy advocates, and elected officials gathered, the largest convening thus far. ...

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Lateefah Simon Inspires the Crowd

Posted on Aug 25, 2025 in

At 6 p.m. on a work night, the Albany High School Little Theater saw more intergenerational mixing than it had in years. More than 200 people – parents, seniors, and teenage students alike – flocked to see Congresspe...

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Trump’s Federalizing DC Is a Dangerous March Toward Military State

Posted on Aug 24, 2025 in

WASHINGTON – The League of Women Voters and the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia issued the following joint statement in response to President Trump deploying the National Guard to Washington, DC, and...

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What is the “One Big Beautiful Bill” and Its Impact?

Posted on Aug 16, 2025 in

On July 4th, the President signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), a nearly 1,000-page bill that changes federal spending levels by stripping tens of millions of our most vulnerable neighbors of th...

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