Segura Digs Deeper Into Black and Brown Voter Turnout
People of color made their voices heard in the election. Now, organizers are turning their efforts to put their policy priorities front and center.
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People of color made their voices heard in the election. Now, organizers are turning their efforts to put their policy priorities front and center.
During the pandemic, more than 64 million people reported difficulty getting enough to eat, with the need felt most sharply in Black and Latino communities.
While an overwhelming majority of Latinos backed the Democratic ticket, the party didn’t do enough to engage voters in California and other non-battleground states.
“I guarantee you that if you took a lane of Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles and gave it only to the bus, ridership would go up,” he says.
California is an engine of innovation that transcends any election, the state’s attorney general says in conversation with Dean Gary Segura.
Experts from across the School provide context and analysis on the 2020 election and its aftermath.
Barriers of race and class have not been fully eradicated despite moves to broaden access to the ballot box.
Chad Dunn of the UCLA Voting Rights Project explains why declaring a winner can take time and why states have different rules.
There’s no longer a political advantage to attacking the Affordable Care Act, and efforts to overturn it in the courts are “an extraordinary stretch,” he says.
“This late attempt to strip voters of their rights was rightfully denied,” says Chad Dunn, the project’s director of litigation.
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