Nonpartisan League

noun

1. a political organization of farmers, founded in North Dakota in 1915, and extending to many states west of the Mississippi, with the aim of influencing agricultural legislation in state legislatures.

Example Sentences

Voting rights activists plan to meet next week to discuss legal recourse around restoring fair access to ballots, said Debbie Pantenburg, spokesperson for the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of Mississippi.

From Seattle Times

Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit supports a Florida law that, according to a spokesperson for the state's nonpartisan League of Women Voters, "makes voter-registration drives, voting by mail and rendering basic assistance to voters in line needlessly difficult, resulting in voting suppression."

From Salon

The nonpartisan League of Women Voters sent a letter to the governor condemning his decision.

From Washington Post

“It’s a total disregard for the Constitution and what the voters chose in 2014 as a process to try to improve the way the lines were drawn,” Laura Ladd Bierman, executive director of the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of New York State, said of the Legislature’s actions.

From New York Times

Selling many rural North Dakotans on the plan of more local control, Townley collected cash dues and postdated checks and formed the Nonpartisan League, which grew exponentially as a progressive faction within the state's Republican Party.

From Salon