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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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Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante in News Wise: “Aging U.S. Immigrant Population Poses Challenges to State Health Care Systems”

A team led by Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management and director of faculty research at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI), has found the United States faces a potential crisis in terms of health care for documented and undocumented immigrants.

Chad Dunn in The New York Times: “Democrats Brace for a Narrower Path to Challenge New Voting Laws”

But voting rights experts noted that the court’s decision on Thursday did not invalidate or significantly hollow out Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. “I do think the test will work to stop a lot of discriminatory electoral practices,” said Chad Dunn, the co-founder of the Voting Rights Project at the University of California,…

Chad Dunn in Essence: “Supreme Court Upholds Arizona’s Restrictive Voting Laws”

Chad Dunn, co-founder and legal director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, told NBC News that some Republican-controlled legislatures will see the Court’s ruling as a means of restricting voters of color. “They’re going to see that if we call it voter fraud, then we can do whatever discriminatory practice we want,” he told the…

UCLA Voting Rights Project Issues Statement on Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Decision

In response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee to uphold voting restrictions in Arizona, which could make it harder to challenge other voting laws moving forward and further weakens the Federal Voting Rights Act, Chad Dunn – co-founder and legal director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, a flagship project of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute – issued the following statement.

Professor Hayes-Bautista in The Sun of San Fernando Valley: “UCLA Study Shows Latinos, Other Non-Whites Hit Hard By Coronavirus”

“The epidemiology of diversity in California is plain: Overall, the curve for COVID-19 case rates observed in the white, non-Hispanic population, in each age group from newborns to 80 years and over, is consistently lower than the curve for all other racial and ethnic groups,” said co-author David Hayes-Bautista, professor of health policy and management…

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