Thank you for voting!
The 2020 elections saw the
greatest voter participation in more than century, and the League worked hard
all year to make our democracy work.
Our award-winning nonpartisan
election site VOTE411
helped more than 6 million users find the information they needed to
cast their ballots. Our dedicated election administrators and volunteers ran
successful elections under trying circumstances. This month we thank the
dedicated secretaries
of state, our legal
partners who fought to expand and protect voting rights, and all the
election workers and postal service workers who ensured voters could
make their voices heard.
Celebrating the first woman in the
White House
One hundred years since women
won the right to vote, Americans have elected the first female vice
president.
In January, when Kamala Harris
swears the oath of office, she will not only be the first woman to ascend to
the second highest office, but the first woman of color and daughter of
immigrants. While the League never endorses candidates or parties, we
celebrate the election of a women to the vice presidency, because we cannot
deny the historic significance of this moment. Read
more in a blog post from our board president, Dr. Deborah Turner.
Counting is complete, but the Census
continues
The 2020 Census count may be
complete, but that doesn’t mean that the work of the Census Bureau is done.
Career staff and statisticians must now analyze the data that has been
collected, put together apportionment numbers for the President, and deliver
data files to the states.
These data files are the end
product of years of hard work. They will inform redistricting processes next
year, and they will help the federal government distribute the trillions of
dollars of federal funding for health, public safety, education, and other
programs for the next decade.
Congress can act to protect the
census by ensuring that the request from the Census Bureau to extend the data
delivery deadlines is included in end-of-year appropriations—ensuring equal
representation and giving communities the resources they need. Ask
Congress to extend the census data delivery deadlines today.
It's *almost* over
While states are certifying the
results and some are going through expensive recounts and lawsuits, the next
step in the presidential election is the voting by the electoral college,
which meets in mid-December.
Our CEO Virginia Kase broke
down the process in an interview
with Elle Magazine, shedding some historical context on the creation
of the electoral college and why LWV believes that that the Electoral College
should be abolished.
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