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Defending Privacy Has Been Essential to the Fight to Ensure the Right to Vote This Year

EPIC · · US Federal · Privacy Law

While voters across the nation cast their votes at the ballot box today, EPIC has spent the past year fighting to protect that right to vote. In every election cycle there are important legal battles that define and shape the electoral landscape—disputes over redistricting and ballot access and the timing and method of voting—but this … Continued

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