Voting Rights Project

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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From Eligibility to the Ballot Box: Examining the Racial and Ethnic Voter Turnout Gaps in the U.S. and California

In this data brief, we quantify the size of the turnout gap between Latinos and other groups in the 2020 election. We illuminate whether the turnout gap between Latino voters and others is due to lower registration rates or to lower mobilization of registered voters.

Vote Choice of Latino Voters in the 2020 U.S. Senate Elections

This report analyzes the choices of Latinos in 2020 Senate elections in five key states and the rate at which they split their ballot with the presidential election.

Navajo Nation, et al. v. San Juan County, NM et al.

The San Juan County Board of Commissioners’ new legislative map dilutes the vote of the Indigenous population within the county, preventing them from electing their choice candidates in all but one of the five county districts.

Riverside County Redistricting Memo

As the Riverside County Board of Supervisors begins to finalize its new district map for adoption, the County must adopt a map that respects Latino voters and other communities of color that have grown over the past ten years.

UCLA VRP Report Urges Orange County to Create Its First Latino-Majority District During the 2021 Redistricting Process

The UCLA Voting Rights Project is urging the Orange County Board of Supervisors to create the county’s first Latino-majority supervisorial district and to increase the political influence of its growing Asian American electorate in a report issued today. The UCLA VRP’s analysis is intended to inform the 2021 district maps.

UCLA VRP Report Urges Changes to Proposed Maps in Yolo County to Preserve the Strength of the Latino Vote

The UCLA Voting Rights Project today issued a memo to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors urging them to reject redistricting map proposals that would split the Latino vote in the only supervisorial district where a Latino official has been elected.

Latino Voters in the 2021 Recall Election

This report analyzes Latino voting patterns in 18 counties in California’s 2021 recall election.

Multiracial and Multiethnic Growth in California: An Analysis of 2020 Census Data

This deck provides a geographic analysis of California’s population growth based on new Decennial Census data (2020).

Opportunities and Challenges Facing California with the 2021 California Recall

This data assesses the growth of California’s Latino, Asian, and Black voters ahead of the state’s 2021 Recall and the 2022 midterm elections.

Latinas Exiting the Workforce: How the Pandemic Revealed Historic Disadvantages and Heightened Economic Hardship

This report quantifies the 2020 loss in labor for Latinas relative to other groups and highlights pre-existing disparities exacerbated by COVID-19.

(Immersive) Latinas Exiting the Workforce: How the Pandemic Revealed Historic Disadvantages and Heightened Economic Hardship

This report quantifies the 2020 loss in labor for Latinas relative to other groups and highlights pre-existing disparities exacerbated by COVID-19.

Vote Choice of Latino Voters in the 2020 Presidential Election

This report offers a comprehensive look at the Latino vote in the 2020 presidential election by analyzing votes cast in 13 key states that are home to 80% of the nation’s Latinos.

Georgia: COVID-19 and Language Access Litigation

During the 2020 Election, the UCLA VRP was involved in three separate projects to ensure that all eligible Georgians were able to access the ballot box. The UCLA VRP team partnered with the ACLU of Georgia and authored two separate expert reports to support litigation to access mail voting and combat long voting lines. The Project also issued a notice letter to Gwinnett County, GA on behalf of Spanish language access voters to force the county to provide important election instruction materials in Spanish on their website.

Portugal et al. v. Franklin County et al.

Franklin County’s electoral system has diluted Latino votes and has served as an effective barrier in preventing Latinos from having an equal opportunity to elect their candidates of choice.

Texas League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott

On October 1, 2020, after voting had begun, Governor Greg Abbott issued a proclamation that prohibited the counties in Texas from offering absentee voters more than one location to return completed absentee ballots in person.

Analysis of New York State’s Absentee Ballot Laws and Process and the Immediate Need for Absentee Ballot Reform

With the rise in COVID-19, New York’s election laws need to improve their absentee ballot process in order to ensure that there is no voter disenfranchisement.

Voting and Infection Prevention of COVID-19

With support from LPPI, this memo from the UCLA Voting Rights Project addresses the concerns of COVID-19 that cause the disease to spread through in-person voting and vote-by-mail. From a medical expert’s perspective, this memo reviews the best practices for voting.

Higginson v. Poway

The UCLA Voting Rights Projects aims to provide the court with essential legal and academic information that has not already been brought up to the court.

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