Postcards from our Report from America corps members covering voting rights on the ground across the country. Who...
Oct 21, 2020
Poll 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, 2020
In 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, 2020
Illinois 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, 2020
New 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...
Sep 29, 2020
How young poll workers may save Americans from Election Day chaos
Evan Malbrough is one of the younger — and more valuable — poll workers in his Atlanta, Ga., precinct. The 22-year-old...
Sep 17, 2020
‘An explosive situation’ in Tunisia
In 2011, a young man named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire and later died. His suicide kicked...
Sep 16, 2020
The drop box rises as a compromise between the mail and the voting booth
This story by the Fulcrum is part of the SoJo Exchange from the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit...
Sep 14, 2020
