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Informing Voters. Empowering People.

Info for 2024 Elections

For unbiased information on candidates and ballot measures, go to VOTE411.

Online Voters Guide
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. 

Don't Miss April 27 Annual Meeting

Kristen Sorth

Submitted by Metro St. Louis in January 2024.

Event Date: 
Apr 27 2024 01:30 pm
Event location: 

Deaconess Foundation

Join us for the 2024 Annual Meeting. Our featured guest speaker is Kristen Sorth, Director of the St. Louis County Library. The topic for her talk is "More Than Books."

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2024 Trivia Night!

Julie Gaebe Jill Brown and Andrea Clark

Submitted by Metro St. Louis in January 2024.

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.

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Join the Fight to End the Ban

End the Abortion Ban - Join the Fight

Submitted by Metro St. Louis in August 2023.

News
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Protect Initiative Petition Process

Initiative Petitions Make Missouri's Democracy Work

Submitted by Metro St. Louis in February 2024.

News

The Missouri House has voted to ask voters to eliminate the majority rule that has defined Missouri’s citizen initiative process for more than a century.

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Why Vote?

My Voice My Choice - Exercising My Right to Change the World

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 April 2 municipal elections was just 16.3 percent in St. Louis 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?
 
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Charter Commission Holds Public Hearing

LWV SLACO and Neighborhoods United for Change

Submitted by Metro St. Louis in November 2023.

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Mark Your Calendar for August 6 Primary

My Voice My Choice - Exercising My Right to Change the World

The League's Register & Vote brochure has updated information on Missouri's voting laws. For information on absentee voting, click here.

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Get Out The Vote! GOTV!

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 is LIVE.
League of Women Voters 2024 GOTV Campaign Calendar is LIVE.
 
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Voter Education Center

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.

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