29 days before Election Day. County elections officials mail vote-by-mail ballots to all active registered voters about a month before the election.2. A New Citizen's Guide to Voting, English. 3. San Jose City Council District Map, SJ City Council District Map. 4. The ballot measure was approved. Specifically, Congress found "that voting discrimination against citizens of language minorities is pervasive and national in scope. Are corporate entities considered persons and, thus, are entitled to the equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment? Equal protection refers to the idea that a governmental body may not deny people equal protection of its governing laws. The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Second, this brief discusses how the CVRA violates the right of all.