to ensure it. In this case, the federal government seeks to segregate and exclude over 20,000 ballots. This request violates longstanding constitutional principles mandating that states have control over their elections.

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Minority communities continued to fight for suffrage. Poll taxes, literacy tests, & other obstacles were further used to prevent individuals from casting their vote. Every generation in our history has witnessed repeated clashes between those who seek to limit access to the ballot & those who fight

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Their push to be recognized as equal citizens of this nation led to the 15th Amendment in 1870 and the 19th Amendment in 1920, which declared that the right to vote could not be denied due to someone’s race or gender. But these amendments did not guarantee all citizens’ enfranchisement in practice.

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in our democracy. Ronald Reagan described this right as “the crown jewel of American liberties, & we will not see its luster diminished.” But access to voting has always been contested. At the inception of our country, African Americans & women of all ethnicities were denied access to the ballot.

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and bend to the will of the Executive Branch. In bringing this lawsuit, the Executive would have this Court believe that it reigns as a sole sovereign. But California and its people are sovereign, too. The right to vote has long been understood as integral to both citizenship and participation

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