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League of Women Voters
noun
- a nonpartisan organization that works toward improving the political process: created in 1920 to inform women on public issues. : LWV
Example Sentences
Forcing otherwise eligible voters to obtain government documents “amounts to what we consider to be an unconstitutional poll tax,” said Dora Rose, deputy director of the League of Women Voters of California, who testified in opposition of the bill.
Celina Stewart, CEO of the League of Women Voters of the United States, told Salon that the bill would create "substantial barriers" for eligible voters that would especially burden low-income and working Americans, who may not be able to afford fees for document copies or have to take time off work to acquire them.
Rudolph joined Dawson-McClure, four other North Carolina women and the League of Women Voters of North Carolina earlier this month in filing an amicus brief to the district court that considered the North Carolina Board of Election's request to move the case to federal court, opposing Griffin's election protests and request for a pause on election certification.
Ely was born and raised in Pennsylvania in the late 1800s, educated at Bryn Mawr College, and was active in predominantly white upper-middle-class women’s organizations such as the Junior League and the League of Women Voters.
Tindall, who filed an amicus brief in the case on behalf of the League of Women Voters of North Carolina and six North Carolinians who were included on the list of voters alleged to have invalid registrations, said one of those North Carolinians recently received a copy of her voter registration application, which showed she had provided her social security number.
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