League of Women Voters of Wyoming

The GOP plans an aggressive get-out-the-vote drive they’re calling their  “Bank Your Vote” initiative for 2024.  They wish to lock in supporters before the General Election Day.  Past President Trump urges donors to support “ballot harvesting”:     Read more>>>

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program began in 2012 and has allowed more than 800,000 people to remain in the US.  Since 2009,  LWVUS has lobbied in favor of permanent protections and a path to citizenship.  They emphasize:

Scheduled to be operational at the end of 2023, the Wyoming facility — see artist’s rendering in the image below — has had delays. The Sweetwater County site has not yet been selected although it should be within 15 miles

June:  we shall receive decisions for cases from the November 2022 sitting of the court. Once again, “SCOTUSblog” lists and summarizes the November cases. Of special interest to the LWV is the decision linked t Section 2 of the Voting

My surprise is the size of the changes that have been approved.  In a few cities, changes will be made to ” group quarters” — dorms, jails, and nursing homes.  Phoenix gained 3550 although neither the redistricting nor legislative number

CT is one of six states that doesn’t allow early voting, and absentee voting is apparently strict.  The national picture is illustrated by the colored map below. This article introduces a number of other restrictions which may surprise us.  Read

Not surprisingly, SCOTUS was unanimous in Tyler v. Hennepin County. Here, Hennepin Co. in MN seized an elderly woman’s home over unpaid taxes, sold it, and kept profits far exceeding her tax debt.  Justice Roberts said that the 5th Amendment

Today’s interim committee meetings apply pressure to expose gross inequities.  Small wonder the State is being sued for improper educational funding. The article begins with the stunning news of a Cheyenne center closing after 50 years of service to  “families