Voter suppression and racial discrimination were the focus of panel discussion on Nov. 19 about the Voting Rights Act of 1965, sponsored by UConn School of Law and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut.
Voting Rights PanelThe panel included Professor Douglas Spencer, who has a joint appointment to UConn School of Law and the university’s Department of Public Policy; Justin Levitt, deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; and Sarah P. Karwan ’00, an assistant U.S. attorney and deputy chief of the Financial Fraud and Public Corruption Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut.
William J. Nardini, chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Connecticut, served as moderator. He introduced the panel by explaining the history of election law, and remarked that problems with access to voting persist, including cases where voters have had to wait eight hours in line to cast their ballots.
