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Law Practice

Nov. 6, 2008

California Lawyers Mobilize to Protect the Vote

Latham & Watkins associate Marc Wilson, center, with Election Protection, watches as election inspector Rose Jones, left, helps voters check paperwork before voting Tuesday at the Concord Missionary Baptist Church polling place in Los Angeles.

By Amanda Becker and Jill Redhage
Daily Journal Staff Writers

By 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning, Marc Wilson and Ryan White had already been to three polling places in South Los Angeles - and had encountered barriers to casting a vote at each one.

Long lines, locked gates, names missing from registration lists and ballot shortages were just some of the issues the two Latham & Watkins attorneys found during the first two hours of their shift as mobi...

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