The Census Bureau has touted the non-response follow-up (NRFU) rate as evidence of a good census count. As...
Nov 02, 2020
Election Episode: 2020 and Counting
The turmoil of the 2020 presidential election campaigns has raised questions about just what it means to vote....
Oct 31, 2020
Forgotten 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, 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
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
How the 2020 presidential election could come down to state lawmakers
Edward B. Foley has a recurring nightmare. It’s Nov. 3, election night. President Donald Trump and former Vice...
Aug 14, 2020
‘An awakening’: George Floyd protests spur surge in Black voter registration
Gregory Sarafan spends most election years assisting team leaders with registration events at concerts, where they target young,...
Aug 10, 2020
Alabama’s get-out-the-vote activists fight back against voting restrictions
Mid-summer, every big election year, Montgomery activist Kynesha Brown’s after-work schedule starts to fill up. In normal times,...
Jul 13, 2020
One church’s tale of two pandemics, 100 years apart
LOS ANGELES — At the height of the influenza pandemic in 1918, the Rev. John Misao Yamazaki stopped...
Apr 15, 2020