California’s Voting Rights Expansion: Evidence and Impacts

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Location
1130 K Street, Room LL3
Jessica Trounstine (UC Merced), Seth Hill (UC San Diego), Jennifer Merolla (UC Riverside), Gabe Lenz (UC Berkeley), Cheryl Boudreau (UC Davis), Mindy Romero (USC), and Thad Kousser (UC San Diego).


This event is co-hosted by the New Electorate Project.

While many states have moved to restrict voting rights in recent years, California has put in place a set of reforms aimed at expanding voter turnout and reducing the “participation gaps” along racial, ethnic, and age lines that have long created a divide between our population and our electorate.  Have these changes – including the Voter’s Choice Act, changes in the timing of local elections, and programs such as Track My Ballot – resulted in measurable impacts on participation?  The UC’s multicampus New Electorate Project has conducted a series of surveys, randomized field experiments, and studies of the phased implementation of reforms to provide rigorous evidence assessing these impacts.  Faculty from the five participating campuses will present findings that assess the effects of California’s voting rights expansions.   

Academic panelists will include:

Cheryl Boudreau - UC Davis

Seth J. Hill - UC San Diego

Thad Kousser - UC San Diego

Gabe Lenz - UC Berkeley

Jennifer Merolla - UC Riverside

Mindy Romero - USC

Jessica Trounstine - UC Merced

*This talk will be given as a webinar as well as a limited in-person option.  The link will be provided on Tuesday, December 13th to those that have registered by 5:00pm on Monday, December 12th.*

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