Confront threats to voter participation and access to voting opportunities that occur through discriminatory barriers to the ballot.

Protect against district maps or election systems that weaken or silence the voting power of communities of color.

Require jurisdictions with a recent history of discrimination to obtain approval before making certain changes to voting practices. 

As voters’ ability to use the federal VRA comes under attack, ensure Californians can go to state court to enforce voting rights. 

Direct courts to interpret laws and exercise discretion in favor of broad access and equal participation in the democratic process. 

Codify Section 203 of the VRA’s requirement to provide in-language votable ballots and all other election materials to groups that meet a certain threshold in a county.

Lower Section 203’s numerical threshold for assistance from 10K to 5K of voting age residents in a county, and expand upon Section 203’s language minority categories to include all language groups.

Gives groups not adequately captured in the Census the opportunity to show, through other sources, that they should qualify for language assistance.