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The UCLA Voting Rights Project is a project of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs aimed at creating an accessible and equitable system of voting for all Americans through impact litigation, research, and clinical education to expand access to the ballot box.

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News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

People of color hit especially hard by this pandemic

David Hayes-Bautista, a UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute expert says, “Facts tell different stories, depending on who is picking them, and placing them in a narrative line. People said ‘well Latinos are going to have a high rate because Latinos tend to suffer from obesity they eat all these tortillas and chicharrones and do everything…

Read More | October 30, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Vote-counting process could extend way beyond election night

“The concern is that if the election officials have to start tallying all the last day of voting ballots and then also have to tally these mail-in ballots all together, then it’s going to take them days,” says Chad Dunn, co-founder and co-director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project.

Read More | October 30, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

The Demographic that could tip Pennsylvania

“The Latino vote definitely has the capacity to be the difference maker in Pennsylvania,” said Matt Barreto, a Biden pollster. “It’s definitely one of our top states of importance when we talk about Latinos.”

Read More | October 30, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Mail-in ballots remain popular across California

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute expert, Matt Barreto says, “One-hundred-ninety-eight people could have died after mailing their ballot, 222 people could have forgotten they had voted three weeks ago and sent in a second vote. The system catches all these things, as it is supposed to.”

Read More | October 30, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Immigrant Rights

Death, debt, and degradation: Trump’s border wall after four years

“The most devastating effect will undoubtedly be the increasing of migrant deaths as they get pushed further and further into dangerous deserts and isolated mountain areas,” says Chris Zepeda-Millán, a University of California, Los Angeles professor who co-authored Walls, Cages, and Family Separation: Race and Immigration Policy in the Trump Era. “That’s literally our stated policy.”

Read More | October 30, 2020

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