Candidates for mayor, city council, school board featured in nonpartisan YouTube interviews Springfield voters, here’s your opportunity to discover which candidates match your views and values before Election Day April 4. Watch and listen to brief interviews as candidates field questions on important topics facing Springfield R-12 school board, Springfield city council and mayor. If you missed the audio broadcasts …
Student group produces voter guide to April 4 election
Paws to the Polls, a nonpartisan, student-led initiative focused on voter participation at Missouri State University, has produced a Springfield voter guide for the April 4 election. The guide includes statements from almost all candidates for the mayoral, city council, and school board races. Each position is prefaced by a job description, i.e. “What does City Council do?” The guide …
League challenges new voter ID requirements in lawsuit
A second lawsuit filed Aug. 24 challenges an anti-voter law (HB1878) set to take effect Aug. 28 across Missouri. The League of Women Voters of Missouri, a plaintiff in this suit and one filed Aug. 22, says the new law violates the right to core political speech by their staff and volunteers and disenfranchises thousands of Missouri citizens who do …
League, NAACP sue over law criminalizing voter engagement efforts
The League of Women Voters of Missouri and Missouri State Conference of the NAACP are challenging several parts of Missouri’s new anti-voter bill that restricts the ability of civic engagement groups to assist with voter registration and absentee ballot applications. (Breaking: On Aug. 24, the League of Women Voters of Missouri joined a second lawsuit against a new law requiring …
SPS School Board Candidate Interviews
Which school board candidates will you vote for? If you missed the audio broadcast on Monday, March 21st on KSMU 91.1, you can click on the video link below to watch individual interviews with the five candidates vying for the Springfield Board of Education. Voters will select two candidates from a slate of five. Election Day is Tuesday, April 5, …
Try your hand at Fair Maps MO mapping contest
Fair Maps Missouri is partnering with academic and redistricting experts to sponsor a mapping contest to produce the best possible congressional, state senate, and state house maps for Missouri. Citizen-drawn maps will show that fair, representative maps that reflect our diverse state are possible as Missouri’s Redistricting Commissions undertake the once-every-10-years task of drawing legislative districts in October. All maps …
Ready for National Voter Registration Day!
The League of Women Voters of Southwest Missouri works year-round to make sure all eligible citizens have the opportunity to register and vote—especially first-time voters, non-college youth, new citizens, communities of color and low-income residents. Tuesday, Sept. 28, is National Voter Registration Day and the League has planned no fewer than six locations where citizens can register for the first time or check that …