Senate Voting Rights Bill, S. 565, Passes

April 12, 2002

BREAKING NEWS - The Senate Voting Rights Bill, S. 565, the "Martin Luther King Jr. Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act" passed overwhelmingly (99-1) in the Senate on April 11. The bill as passed included the Rockefeller Amendment (whose purpose was "To meet the needs of both military and civilian overseas voters by providing treatment more nearly...

FAWCO Reconfirms Its Stand On Election Reform

March 2002

As we move into a new election year, the obstacles to voting from overseas have taken on new and vital importance for Americans abroad. In view of the difficulties we have encountered in convincing our legislators to address overseas Americans' concerns in the election reform bill now before the Senate, and realizing that the House and Senate...

FAWCO honors the crafters of the Help America Vote Act (May 2005)

Four Fellowship Awards were presented by President Arline Coward at the 2005 FAWCO Biennial Conference in Birmingham, and given personally to the Congressmen and Senators in Washington in May, 2005. The recipients were Senators Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Congressmen Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Bob Ney (R-OH).

The March 1953 FAWCO conference in Brussels issued a...

Partnership with Overseas Vote Foundation (2007)

The Overseas Vote Foundation and the Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas Establish Alliance Partnership

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