Sonni Waknin, the managing law fellow at the UCLA Voting Rights Project and a UCLA School of Law graduate, said a concerted effort to suppress voters might be at play.
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Chad Dunn, general counsel of the Texas Democratic Party, though, said itâs impermissible — as age discrimination — for the state to confer a mail-voting privilege on all Texas voters who are 65 or older, but deny it to those who are younger.
Sonja Diaz and Laura Martinez of the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute wrote an opinion piece on the importance of protecting the most vulnerable population from the COVID-19 pandemic.Â
âWhen it comes down to the constitutional rights of voters during a presidential election, I don’t think anyone is surprised that the parties are going to press the case as long as needed to get finality,â said Chad Dunn, Texas Democratic Party general counsel.
At Mondayâs hearing, Chad Dunn, representing the Texas Democratic Party, told the court that the Texas mail-in voting law violates the 26th Amendment, which says the right to vote canât be âdenied or abridgedâ on account of age.
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