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A message from League of United Latin American Citizens

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Contact: Oriana Piña | 202-204-1241 | [email protected]



Super Tuesday Minority Voters Were Latest Victims of the Voting Rights Act
Gutting
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Nation’s Oldest & Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Demands Action to
Correct Lack of Polls in Minority Areas, Long Lines, Broken Machines, and Other
Barriers To Vote, Experienced by Latino and African American Voters on Super
Tuesday

Washington, DC – Today, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is
demanding measures by state governments and state political parties to address
voting issues at the polls on Super Tuesday, such as sparse poll stations, lack
of poll workers, and malfunctioning voting machines at stations in minority
neighborhoods. LULAC National President Domingo Garcia issued the following
statement on the voting suppression issues voters faced on Super Tuesday:

“Latinos have become the largest minority voting bloc in 2020, and our community
is at the heart of the voting base in states like California and Texas. Yet, it
is precisely in the largest minority communities around the country –specifically
districts where the Latino vote makes the difference – that we are witnessing the
biggest barriers for people to vote.

The calculated effort to suppress the minority vote during Super Tuesday is a
danger to our democracy. In my home state of Texas, we heard from hundreds of
minority Americans unable to vote due to too many people at too few polls and
malfunctioning machines causing long lines. In California, we also saw how a lack
of poll workers delayed lines for hours. This is on top of years of blatant
attempts to reduce the number of polling sites in places where the Latino and
African-American population is growing by the largest numbers through the gutting
of the Voting Rights Act.

This history of voting discrimination has made it especially difficult for
low-income Americans to participate in elections, due to hardships around child
care, work flexibility, and even transportation. Simply put, if you earn an
hourly wage, it is unfair to have to choose between feeding your family or
exercising your civic duty. The Voting Rights Act was supposed to protect our
communities from this systematic disenfranchisement. Unfortunately, the Supreme
Court’s decision in Shelby County vs. Holder put minority voter
disenfranchisement on display this Super Tuesday.”

Background
LULAC has been at the forefront of protecting voter rights for Latinos and all
minorities. The organization is a party in the case challenging the Texas
“winner-take-all” voting system, which violates the “one-person, one-vote”
principle arising from constitutional equal protection and freedom of association
rights. In October 2019, LULAC celebrated a victory when District Court Judge
Scott D. Rosenberg ruled in favor of the organization in a lawsuit that
challenged Iowa’s voter ID law and resulted in the court rejecting a
controversial rule that would have allowed state voter records to be compared to
the federal immigration database. Similarly in Texas, LULAC won a lawsuit against
the state over a voter purge list attempting to suppress Latino voters, as ruled
by San Antonio Federal Judge Fred Biery in 2019.

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About LULAC
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the nation’s largest and
oldest civil rights volunteer-based organization that empowers Hispanic Americans
and builds strong Latino communities. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with 1,000
councils around the United States and Puerto Rico, LULAC’s programs, services and
advocacy address the most important issues for Latinos, meeting critical needs of
today and the future. For more information, visit www.LULAC.org [ [link removed] ] .







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