Correspondence from Lani Guinier to Curtis B. Gans, Esq. (Committee for the Study of the American Electorate)

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April 4, 1986

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  • Legal Department General, Lani Guinier Correspondence. Correspondence from Lani Guinier to Curtis B. Gans, Esq. (Committee for the Study of the American Electorate), 1986. 7e8352ee-e992-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/38e1ffdc-9341-436a-bb24-d0248871d65d/correspondence-from-lani-guinier-to-curtis-b-gans-esq-committee-for-the-study-of-the-american-electorate. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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April 4, 1986

Curtis B. Gahs, Esq.
Director
Non-Voter Study I 85-r 86
Committee for the Study of the American Electorate
421 New Jersey Ave., S.E.
Washington, D.C.20003

Dear lrlr. Gans

Thank you for sending me a copy of your llarch 27, 1986
letter to Linda Davidoff, Executive Director, the Human
Serve Fund.

I, too, would appreciate a copy of your report in "Non-
Voter Study '85-'86" when your project is completed next
year. In the meantime, perhaps you could presently
furnish me some information on the design and scope of
the project. I am partj.cularly interested in knowing
what you plan to do before you do it. I could then offer
some timely and, I hope, useful suggestions as a result of
our practical litigation experiences and information ob-
tained in LDF cases in which we are challenging discrimina-
tory electoral schemes, restrictive registration lavJs,
criminal prosecutions of voter registration activists,
selective purging, and arbitrary in fact local deputization
practices, all of which have an impact on voter participa-
tion.

I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest conven-
ience.

Assistant Counsel

LG/ r

cc3 Linda Davidoff., Esg.
bcc: Steve Rosenstone

Eddie I{i1lians

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