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The Ranked Ballot Is the Pro-Women, Pro-Voter, Pro-Democracy Reform America Needs

For 250 years, the story of American democracy has been a story of expanding who holds power and who gets to decide who yields it. The 15th Amendment, the 17th, the Voting Rights...

19th Amendment Ratified!

It took decades of work, misogynistic attacks, and religious pious outrage for the suffragettes to win the right to vote, as men had since the conception of the country. History: "...

NCWS Tasks Women to Vote Wisely, Seeks More Political Positions

Kemi Olaitan in Ibadan The National Council of Women’s Societies (NCWS) has urged women in Nigeria to mobilise and vote wisely in the 2027 general election in accordance with their...

A Decade After Hillary Clinton’s Historic Presidential Run, the DNC Is Fighting Over Ranked-Choice Voting

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in t...

Pins and Politics: Group talks voting importance at Westside Bowl

The League of Women Voters is celebrating the right to vote 61 years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 became law.

Pins and Politics: Group talks voting importance at Westside Bowl

The League of Women Voters is celebrating the right to vote 61 years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 became law.

In a competitive Maine Senate race, women voters could be the deciders

The race between Susan Collins and Troy Jackson is one of this year's most high-profile Senate contests. To win, both candidates will need support from an especially powerful votin...

‘Suffs’ spotlights major win in a fight that’s far from over

On the surface, 106 years seems like a long time ago. It’s not. Women were granted the right to vote in the United States in 1920 via the 19th Amendment. It was far too long after...

Women in Maine may choose the victor in this year's Senate race

The race between Susan Collins and Troy Jackson is one of the nation's most high-profile Senate contests this year -- and may ultimately be decided by an especially powerful voting...

Vote Strategically to End Marginalisation,  Varsity Don Tells Nigerian Women

Sunday Aborisade in Abuja A Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Ilorin, Emmanuel O. Ojo, yesterday urged Nigerian women to leverage their electoral strength by v...

Fewer votes, more prominent roles for women likely in SLC's next proposed constitution

The Transformation Committee refused to divulge details of the constitution it is in the process of drafting, nor did it commit to specific deadlines

Allowing women with artificial nails to vote is progressive – NGOCC

NGOCC has welcomed the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ)’s move to allow women wearing artificial nails to vote, describing the move as progressive. The ECZ recently clarified t...

Want to Protect the Vote? Become a Poll Worker

For months now, hundreds of active and caring friends and supporters have been writing and calling us with a version of the same question: In addition to sending money, what else c...

On the Voting Rights Act’s Anniversary, Short Film ‘Selma Sisters March On’ Captures 1965’s Fight for the Right to Vote

Aug. 6, 2026, marks the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, the VRA sought to end Jim Crow-era voter disenfranchiseme...

The Voting Rights Act Turns 61 as New Threats to the Ballot Box Mount

This year's midterm elections have the power to dramatically alter representation in the current Republican-leaning Congress: All 435 congressional seats in the U.S. House are up f...

Ways of Seeing: Raise your voice at the ballot box

"Every decision about leadership counts."

Tracing the origins of the women's suffrage movement

The women’s suffrage right to vote movement started here in New York, with many of the key figures living in communities across the state.

America at 250: Honoring the Women Who Expanded American Democracy

WASHINGTON, D.C. (DC Bureau) -- As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, a new monument on the National Mall aims to ensure the women who expanded American...

ECZ urges women to seize proportional representation seats

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Elect Women NJ Announces Record Investment in 99 Women Running Across New Jersey

The organization will invest a record $23,000 in its largest endorsed cohort, bringing 73 new women into its statewide network and supporting a record 10 mayoral candidates in a st...

The 19th Amendment isn’t safe: Why we can no longer ignore the Anti-Suffrage Movement

A hundred years after women won the vote, a rising theological movement wants to take it away.

At the polls, Vermont primary voters seek change

League of Women Voters, Law Forward sue elections commission over absentee counting

The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Thursday against Wisconsin Elections Commission guidance that bars people who request an absentee ballot from casting an in-...

Number of women seeking a governor’s seat hits an all-time high

WASHINGTON — New data reveals the number of women running in the 2026 elections is slightly up from 2024, but experts say there is still progress to be made with women’s representa...