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The League launched our "One Person One Vote" campaign to activate voters around abolishing the Electoral College and building a truly representative electoral system.
The Electoral College is a racist relic designed to take power away from the people. Just as we did during the women's suffrage movement, we're fighting for a democracy that is truly by and for the people.

It seems like everyone is talking about toxic division and polarization. In response, you might have wondered, “America has always had a lot of disagreement and conflict. How is this different?”
Or maybe you’ve thought: “But it makes sense for us to be polarized when the ‘other side’ is so horrible and dangerous.” Being divided can seem to make sense when we see “them” as hurting the country or our community, as behaving in authoritarian ways, or whatever it is we see that arouses our anger.
So let’s dig into what people mean when they talk about the problem of polarization.

The Founding Fathers maintained that the success of the fragile American democracy would depend on the competency of its citizens. They believed strongly that preserving democracy would require an educated population that could understand political and social issues and would participate in civic life, vote wisely, protect their rights and freedoms, and resist tyrants and demagogues. The critical role of an educated electorate to an effective democracy makes a high-quality system of public education a democracy issue. Any effort to weaken our system of public education or thwart its fundamental role of preparing citizens for self-governance, weakens our democracy.
There appears to be a War being waged on public education in Ohio and around the country and we should be ready to protect democracy by preventing the rise of policies that weaken public education for all.