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Dear League members,

When we are all being bombarded by news during this election cycle and busy trying to get out the vote for our May Primary, we don't needmore to process! We will have more to report after the Primary. In the meantime, it's worth noting the work we reported to LWVUS for 2025, when we had no elections, revealed we volunteered 17,000 hours toward making our democracy work, worth $524,000! Thank you all!

The nationwide data reflects the work of over 600 Leagues, many with elections in 2025. It will be interesting to see the increase in numbers after the 2026 elections!

Of note is that a judge has blocked the ban on student IDs for voting: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-blocks-indiana-gops-student-id-ban/ Students will be able to use their IDs to vote in the primary.The ruling will be challenged, so we will see what happens for the General Election.

If at all possible, please attend the Primary Elections webinar scheduled for Monday, 20 April, 7 pm. To register scan the QR code on the graphic below or go to https://tinyurl.com/5czken56. We all need to understand how primaries function inIndiana. Dr. Crosson willspeak to how open primaries affect candidate moderation, why same-party competition can reduce polarization, and why open primaries give parties more control over nominating electable candidates. Come with questions!

For fun, you may want to listen to this Prepping to Vote playlist from LWV:

https://www.lwv.org/blog/our-voting-playlist

In League,

Linda

FORGOTTEN FOREMOTHERS
Profiles of lesser-known heroines in the fight for women's rights

Hazel Ying Lee

“There was nothing Mother could do,” Hazel Ying Lee’s younger sister told theLos Angeles Timesin 2003. “She said, ‘You’re not afraid of the wind, you’re not afraid of the water,” and that was that.”

This adventurous nature led Hazel to swimming and handball, running races with classmates, and playing cards. In 1929, she graduated from Portland’s Cleveland High School (then called the High School of Commerce). Seventeen-year-old Hazel began working as an elevator operator at the now-historic H. Liebes and Co. in downtown Portland. Then, in 1932, she and a friend visited a nearby airfield...

“Like Amelia Earhart, when I had my first ride in an airplane, I decided that I just had to learn to fly,” she toldThe Sunday Oregonianin 1933. “That was one day at the Christofferson airport on the Columbia River highway. Charles Hanst, then instructor of a group of Chinese boys, took me up for a ride. After that I began to work on how I could learn to fly an airplane myself!”