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National Night Out 2024
Posted on July 29, 2024 in League News | comments
The evening of Tuesday August 6, 5:00 to 8:00pm is National Night Out, a nationwide effort to make communities safer by building and strengthening relationships among neighbors. Strong neighborhoods help us become more r...
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LWV Responds to House Vote on the SAVE Act
Posted on July 27, 2024 in League News | comments
WASHINGTON, DC — League of Women Voters of the United States issued the following statement in response to the House passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act: “Instead of advancing meaningful le...
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Federal Court Strikes Down Restrictions on Voters with Disabilities in Ohio
Posted on July 27, 2024 in League News | comments
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal court has struck down restrictions in Ohio’s House Bill 458 that made it a crime for all but a handful of family members to assist voters with disabilities in casting absentee ballots. The...
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Electoral College Part 4
Posted on July 22, 2024 in League News | comments
Proof of Concept It is time now to do away with the Electoral College and institute the national popular vote. It is time to provide true incentives for the political parties to win the true majority of voters and addres...
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The Legal Aspects of Biden’s Replacement
Posted on July 22, 2024 in League News | comments
The League of Women Voters of the United States, as a member organization of the National Task Force on Election Crises, released the following statement on the Democratic party replacing its presumptive presidential nom...
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Challenges Facing Student Voters
Posted on July 22, 2024 in League News | comments
A League of Women Voters US Blog Young voters are becoming a force in American politics. While only 13% of people aged 18-29 voted in 2014, that percentage skyrocketed to 28% in 2018 and stayed high in 2022 at 23%. You...
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PAB and the Texting Scandal
Posted on July 16, 2024 in League News | comments
The Berkeley Police Accountability Board (PAB) met at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, July 10th to discuss the aftermath of the Berkeley Police Department’s (BPD) texting scandal among other topics. The meeting started with the ...
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LWVUS National Convention 2024 Report
Posted on July 14, 2024 in League News | comments
LWVBAE delegates: Cynthia Chen, Christine Wenrich, Diz Swift, and Elise Mills attended the 56th Biennial LWVUS 2024 National Convention. Diz was a panelist for the workshop “LWVUS Climate Interest Group – Actio...
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Electoral College Part 3
Posted on July 12, 2024 in League News | comments
An Empty Institution There are still arguments for the Electoral College that must be addressed. In Federalist No. 68, Alexander Hamilton writes “the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing t...
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Supreme Court Alarms Experts Across the US
Posted on July 9, 2024 in League News | comments
On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that amounts to its greatest power grab since 1803, when the Marshall Court established judicial review, according to Ellie Mystal of the Nation Magazine. As man...
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