MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – During last month’s presidential debate, President Trump encouraged his supporters to "go to the polls...
Oct 28, 2020Ismaili, Ahmadi Muslims push national voter registration efforts
This year, the Muslim civic advocacy organization Emgage promised to turn out one million Muslim voters in the 2020 presidential...
Oct 27, 2020The hidden keepers of American elections
Postcards from our Report from America corps members covering voting rights on the ground across the country. America's election system...
Oct 22, 2020Forgotten and left behind, these American voters don’t feel counted among ‘We the People’
Postcards from our Report from America corps members covering voting rights on the ground across the country. Who...
Oct 21, 2020Poll workers help voters brave difficult conditions in Georgia’s early voting
At 6:45 a.m. Hannah Siegel was the second person in line at her polling location in Fulton County...
Oct 14, 2020In San Diego, Black Muslims are working to expand voting access in jails
Most inmates in California jails are eligible to vote. But former inmate Christopher Jackson says few of them...
Oct 14, 2020Illinois advocates work to ensure ballot access for jail voters during pandemic
Joyce Harris voted for the first time when she landed in Chicago’s Cook County Jail on a drug...
Oct 13, 2020‘Mail voting doesn’t work for Navajo Nation’: Native Americans face steep election hurdles
Tamisha Jensen requested a mail ballot in mid-September. Mail ballots don’t ship in Arizona until Oct. 7, but she’s...
Oct 09, 2020New Tennessee law surfaces the South’s racist beginnings of felon voter disenfranchisement
This story was originally published by Scalawag, a journalism and storytelling organization that illuminates dissent, unsettles dominant narratives, pursues justice...
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