This year in St. Paul we have elections for mayor and school board as well as a ballot question on rent stabilization.  Learn more about the candidates, ranked choice voting and key dates with our 2021 Voter Guide. Keep an eye open for our candidate forums and rent stabilization debate, dates coming soon! 

St. Paul Voter Guide 2021.pdf

St. Paul Voter Guide 2021-hmn.pdf

St. Paul Voter Guide 2021-spa.pdf

Watch the St. Paul School Board Forum recorded on October 6th, 2021 at the SPNN TV Studio.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Rr_6cZjsU

Wondering what school boards do? Check out the LWV Woodbury, Cottage Grove Area's in depth program here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yl-uNuaolY

This month's newsletter is 10 pages of news and updates:

• An interview with longtime LWVSP member Mary Vik (pictured above, at left)
• Voter services news and a partnership with the Minnesota Lynx and Timberwolves
• Learn with the League program announcements and a recap of the August program on physical barriers to voting
• The new diversity, equity, and inclusion policy
• Book club news
• Amy and Heidi's complete letter to members

Read our October 2021 newsletter.

"Equity and Accessibility in Voting: Language and Cultural Barriers to the Polls"

This is a recording of the live "Learn with the League" program from August 24, 2021. The first of this three-part series about equity and accessibility in voting, our panel of Marion McCarthy, advocate for successful aging, and Nikki Villavicencio, noted disability rights advocate and current Maplewood City Council member, discussed various physical issues they have encountered while voting. Learn about current Minnesota state law and specific actions you can take to promote excellence in voting access for all Minnesota citizens eligible to vote.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rasi9wrwFvo

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You can now read the July-August 2021 newsletter from the League of Women Voters Upper Mississippi River Region Inter-League Organization.

You can now read the July 2021 Council of Metropolitan Area Leagues newsletter.

For the June LWVSP program, Who Gets to Vote?, we were joined by David Schultz and Tammy Patrick. David Schultz is a Hamline University Professor in the departments of political science, legal studies, and environmental studies, and a professor of law at the University of Minnesota. Tammy Patrick is a Senior Advisor for Elections for Democracy Fund and an adjunct professor at the Humphrey School for Public Policy's Certificate in Election Administration program. Both panelists shared presentations and discussed Americans' voting rights in an historical and modern day context.

Watch the recording of the event on YouTube.

Some resources mentioned: 

- Voting Laws Roundup: May 2021 from the Brennan Center for Justice

- National Conference of State Legislatures

- Electionline

June edition of The Voter.