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Alba Villarreal

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Alba Villarreal is a third-year political science student at Georgia State University. She hopes to serve as an advocate for her community through political mobilization and fighting for the rights of marginalized folks everywhere.

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VOICES: Georgia's new voting law is an assault on our democracy's future

By Evan Malbrough Alba Villarreal

April 1, 2021 - Young people are among those whose access to the ballot would be limited under a restrictive new voting law passed in Georgia, a state that once led the nation in empowering the youth vote. Congress should act to lift these limits and shore up young people's eroding faith in democracy by passing the For the People Act.