Since 1960, California has greatly improved its voter registration process. Ballots are now mail-in, multilingual, and registration is available up to election day. Why then do California elections not fully reflect the diversity of the state? What tactics can increase – and sustain – voter engagement?

With moderator Alisa Belinkoff Katz, lead author of UCLA’s recent report Reckoning with Our Rights: The Evolution of Voter Access in California, and election experts Kristin Nimmers from the California Black Power Network and Lori Pesante from the Dolores Huerta Foundation.

This program is part of a new series, California on the Ballot, made possible by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of their A More Perfect Union initiative and was launched with funding from the Why it Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation initiative, administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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