League of Women Voters “Refuses to Help Perpetrate a Fraud”
In 1988, the League of Women Voters (LWV) withdrew from sponsorship of the televised presidential debates because it would not lend its trusted name to the political theater of the two-party duopoly. Their public statement of withdrawal was so powerful and prophetic that it continues to resonate deeply with voters and non-voters, over 30 years later. …