Founding and Early History: From the spirit of the suffrage movement and the shock of the First World War came a great idea – that a nonpartisan civic organization could provide the education and experience the public needed to assure…
YES on Prop 54: California Legislature Transparency Act. League Analysis Proposition 54 gives voters a stronger voice at the state Capitol through greater transparency. Its three common-sense changes to the California Constitution will change the way business is done in…
Redistricting, the process of redrawing election district boundaries every ten years to ensure that districts have equal populations, is crucial to our democracy. AB 764 (Bryan & Cervantes) and AB 1248 (Bryan & Allen) would help ensure that local jurisdictions…
YES on Prop 17: Restore Voting Rights. Restoring voting rights to Californians who have completed their prison term is a matter of justice, equity, and fundamental fairness. Right now, nearly 50,000 people who have been released from prison and are…
May 21, 2014 The Honorable Edmund G. Brown, Jr. Governor of California State Capitol Building Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: Democratic Governors Association Lawsuit Dear Governor Brown: Since 1974 the League of Women Voters has applied its principles of…
May 26, 2009 — The California Supreme Court issued its decision today upholding the constitutionality of Proposition 8. The measure, passed by the voters on November 4, 2008, amended the California Constitution to provide that only marriage between a man…