COVID-19 and Voting Rights: Ensuring Full and Equal Participation [CC]

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Eastern Time (US & Canada)
  • By: American Bar Association
  • Webinar
  • Source: National Disaster Legal Aid - OLD2 > National Disaster Legal Aid Advocacy Center
Topics:
  • Civil Rights
  • Access to Justice
  • COVID-19

Our nation prepares for a presidential election during a national pandemic. States are preparing for an election that allows for social distancing and an exponential growth in mail-in balloting.

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We are currently in the midst of a global and national pandemic and COVID-19 has drastically altered the American way of life. As our nation prepares for a presidential election, we must ensure that voting rights are not left behind as we navigate a much changed electoral process and landscape.

Please join a critical discussion of voting rights in Indian Country and how States are preparing for an election that allows for social distancing and an exponential growth in mail-in balloting, as well as how these scenarios will be played out in other states, localities, municipalities, and Native nations around the United States.