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Informing Voters. Empowering People.

Ballot Info for April 2 Election

League volunteers have gathered information on hundreds of candidates and dozens of ballot issues for the April 2 nonpartisan municipal elections.

April 2 Election Info
CoPres

Co-Presidents Nancy Thompson and Victoria Turner

Getting ready for a busy 2024!

VG

Preparing for 2024 Voters Guides

Members are learning how to gather information for three nonpartisan voter guides in 2024. The League remains a trusted source of accurate and unbiased information about candidates and ballot measures. 

CC

Enjoying In-Person Gatherings

Members gathered for Civic Cocktails at 9 Mile Garden.

Board

Officers and Board for 2023-2024

New officers and board members were elected at the 2023 Annual Meeting.

Board
Voter registration team helping students at McCluer North High School

Registering Young Voters

Our voter registration teams are hard at work. The deadline to register to vote in Missouri's April 2 municipal elections is March 6.

 

Launch

League Releases New History

Author Nicole Evelina signed copies of Raising Our Voices: St. Louis League of Women Voters 1960-2022 at a Feb. 5 launch party. Amazon offers a Kindle edition of the book for $2.99.

Raising Our Voices
SOS

Challenging HB1878

League members delivered more than 100 voter solicitation forms to the Secretary of State after new anti-voter legislation took effect in August 2022. LWVMO and the Missouri NAACP filed lawsuits challenging several provisions of HB1878. 

advocating

Advocacy in Jefferson City

Members participated in a Voting Rights Advocacy Day in Jefferson City.

Policing Study Group

Policing Equity

Members of the Policing Study Group met with Center for Policing Equity staff.

Hearing

Speaking Out Against Anti-Voter Legislation

Asking legislators to make voting easier, not more difficult.

Minor

Minor Marker

Dedicating marker on National Votes for Women Trail for suffragist Virginia Minor.

Honoring Virginia Minor
4th

Marching for Voting Rights

Voting Rights Group in Webster Groves Parade on July 4

Marquette

Registering Youth Voters

Marquette High School's first Festival of Nations

CC

Encouraging Students to Vote

Volunteers at St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley

JJ

Finish the Fight

The Missouri History Museum hosted a webinar with former LWVUS President Dr. Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins about her book The Untold Story of Women of Color in the League of Women Voters. The "Colored League" in St. Louis had 300 members teaching citizenship and registering Africian-American voters in the 1920s.

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Proclamation

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page expresses "appreciation of the struggles of Suffragists and others who fought for the right to vote by all citizens." Pictured with Dr. Page are Nancy Miller, Louise Wilkerson and Jean Dugan from the League and Pat Shores and Jan Scott from AAUW.

 

LWV St Louis members march for Equal Rights Amendment 2020

Educating and Empowering Voters for 100 Years

Our members marching for equality at the Equal Rights Amendment March 2020

Read about the LWV Centennial Anniversary

Metro St. Louis

Mission: Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy.

Vision: We envision a democracy where every person has the desire, the right, the knowledge and the confidence to participate. 

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                         Be an informed voter!
Go to VOTE411 for information on voting in Missouri in 2024. 
Julie Gaebe Jill Brown and Andrea Clark
Event Date: 
Mar 16 2024 07:00 pm

Members and friends of the League enjoyed a great night of trivia on Saturday, March 16, at the 1st Congregational Church in Webster Groves. This year's emcee was Shawn Spanner.

Initiative Petitions Make Missouri's Democracy Work
News

The Missouri Senate has approved SJR74 to undermine the initiative petition process and end majority rule.

End the Abortion Ban - Join the Fight
News
webinar
Event Date: 
Jan 17 2024 06:30 pm

DEMOCRATSThe party is offering a choice of casting a ballot by mail or voting at an in-person voting site from 8 am until noon on Saturday, March 23. Anyone registered to vote by Feb.

VOTE April 2

Elections have consequences.

EVERY ELECTION MATTERS. The results of elections affect everyone - those who vote and those who do not. Yet voter turnout in the 2023 April municipal elections was just 18 percent in St. Louis City and County and even lower in other Missouri counties.
 
Our daily lives are affected by a lengthy list of things which elected officials decide. Shouldn’t your opinions be included in important decisions such as reproductive rights and gun policy in Missouri?
 
Get Out the Vote - Let Your Voice Be Heard
Democracy works best when everyone participates.  
So let's GET OUT THE VOTE!!!
 
League of Women Voters GOTV Toolkit for April election is LIVE.
League of Women Voters April 2024 GOTV Campaign Calendar is LIVE.
 
Speaker
Event Date: 
Dec 16 2023 10:30 am

The League heard from Jared Opsal, Executive Director of the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, at this year's Holiday Brunch. We enjoyed a hot breakfast buffet and desserts from Russo's Gourmet Express at the Lodge at Des Peres.  Members don

2023TP
Event Date: 
Oct 15 2023 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm
Event location: 

Saturday Night Fever

Thank you to all the sponsors, volunteers and attendees who made the 2023 Theatre Party a success.

Gloria
Event Date: 
Sep 25 2023 07:00 pm

Members enjoyed the election documentary No Time to Fail. After the film, a panel of local election officials discussed the challenges they faced in 2020 and expect in 2024. We heard from St.

Velma
News

League volunteers worked with Velma Bailey to teach youth at Camp Sun Splash about voting and civic engagement. A mock election resulted in a tie, showing that every vote matters.

Moore
News

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a theory in Moore v. Harper that would have given state legislatures nearly unrestricted authority to set the rules for federal elections.

MOVPC Photo ID

The League's Register & Vote brochure has updated information on Missouri's voting laws. There are now two weeks of no-excuse, in-person absentee voting before each election. Several area election authorities now offer satellite voting sites for voters with a state-issued photo ID.

Resolutions
News

Lisa Collier, Kathleen Farrell and Joan Hubbard came up with several clever resolutions at the May 6 State Convention in Columbia, "Getting in More Good Trouble."

Ready

Signing up to be a poll worker is one way to ensure our democracy stays strong. Sign up with your local election authority (links below) or go to www.powerthepolls.org/LWV to help with 2024 elections.