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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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Court arguments: Does the Constitution require Texas to expand vote by mail?

“Forty-five of the other states do this,” Chad Dunn argued. “At the end of day, this case is about a fair electoral system where nobody has to go through additional burdens in order to vote.”

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News Articles & Media Coverage → Diversity & Inclusion

Driving while black will air on PBS oct. 13

In addition to Sorin, DRIVING WHILE BLACK includes interviews with African Americans sharing their personal stories, along with some of the country’s leading historians, authors and journalists, including: Eric Avila (Professor of History, UCLA).

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News Articles & Media Coverage → Voting Rights Project

5th Circuit Court of Appeals hears Texas Democrats’ case for expanding mail-in voting

“Texas is the outlier here, and our system is set up – it’s early enough to get this process done and the constitution requires it,” said Chad Dunn, general counsel for the Texas Democrats. The bottom line? As of right now, there won’t be any expansions to mail-in voting in Texas.

Read More | September 8, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Is the Biden campaign doing enough to reach out to Latino voters?

Sonja Diaz believes the Biden campaign is not paying enough attention to Latino voters. “This is at the expense of expanding the electorate because there are finite resources, and the party and the campaign need to decide what is the priority.”

Read More | September 8, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Immigrant Rights

Immigration Nation reveals the suffering of migrants at the hands of the US detention and deportation machine

Jason De Leon, a professor of anthropology at UCLA, explains that one of the metrics used by the authorities to measure deterrence is a rise in migrant deaths. As De Leon explains, the brutal claim by the authorities is that “people put themselves in harm’s way, they did it to themselves.” The latest total is…

Read More | September 8, 2020

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