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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 → Criminal Justice

An innovative data storytelling project reveals the dirty secrets of LA policing

Kelly Lytle Hernandez’s work sheds new light on this moment in which the nation is confronting racism embedded in policing, mass incarceration, health and other systems. Through Million Dollar Hoods, an innovative data and storytelling project based on police booking reports, Hernandez and her team revealed that Los Angeles residents were most often arrested for…

Read More | October 19, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Diversity & Inclusion

We see you: New department name uplifts Central Americans

“We need to lead the way nationally. And hopefully through that effort, we will open bridges and spaces where we learn more about each other,” said Leisy Abrego, the new department chair of the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano and Central American Studies and a UCLA LPPI expert. Abrego is a…

Read More | October 19, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Here’s What To Know About Voter Suppression Before The Election, According To Experts

“It’s not that young people are indifferent or inattentive to an election — they are purposefully excluded, not only through voter suppression but through the ways that our political systems operate,” explains Sonja Diaz, the founding executive director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Read More | October 19, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Opinion: California must consider making Election Day a state holiday to increase turnout

Sonni Waknin, a voting rights managing law fellow at UCLA Voting Rights Project, said that the federal government makes voting extraordinarily difficult. Making Election Day a holiday would help reduce suppressive tactics that people face, Waknin added. “It’s an encouragement to engage in the civic process,” Waknin said. “Having a day off would not only…

Read More | October 19, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground

The new PBS Documentary features LPPI Founding Director, Sonja Diaz. Following activists, organizers, and others who are working to maximize Latino turnout in their local communities while simultaneously devoting their efforts to COVID-19 relief as the pandemic surges, “Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground” delves into the high-stakes fight to activate Latino voters in these…

Read More | October 19, 2020

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