With the Nov. 3 midterm elections approaching, UCLA’s undergraduate student government is working to help students understand their ballots, register to vote and access voting resources.

A UCLA research center is working to challenge racial and partisan gerrymandering, voter eligibility and ballot collection issues ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
The UCLA Voting Rights Project, housed within the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and affiliated with the UCLA School of Law and the College Division of Social Sciences, was founded in 2018 as a pilot program by Matt Barreto, the VRP’s faculty director, and Chad Dunn, the project’s legal director, to combine legal and political science perspectives on voting rights.

This post was updated Oct. 30 at 8:35 p.m..
This November, California voters will decide on a ballot proposition that would enforce new voter identification requirements.

A $11.25 billion bond on the November ballot aims to fund the construction of affordable housing, including for veterans and UC students.
The measure, if passed, would provide subsidies for up to 40,000 new affordable homes, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.

A group of UCLA students are taking their fitness knowledge outside of the gym and into the healthcare field.
BareBones, a student-run club founded in October 2024, aims to provide personalized musculoskeletal care – healthcare that focuses on bones, muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons – to underserved communities.

Despite the Trump administration’s accusations that California intentionally delayed the vote tallying process in the primary elections, Los Angeles County has never counted ballots faster, an expert from the LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office said.

Students in all stages of education use college rankings to choose which institution to attend.
Multiple websites publish rankings of the over 3,700 degree-granting institutions in the United States.