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Navajo voters in one Arizona County see their ballots rejected more frequently. Here's what would fix that.

Jen Fifield Carrie Levine

November 03, 2022 |

Votebeat |

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Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Arizona

Some Arizona counties that include parts of the Navajo Nation have set up voting centers, central locations where residents can come to vote in-person regardless of what precinct they are assigned to. The centers have helped reduce the number of provisional ballots cast on the reservation, which faces significant voting barriers due to distance, transportation access, and spotty mail and internet service, and other counties with reservation land are now pushing to establish their own voting centers.

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Doug Mastriano's proposed voter roll purge addresses a non-existent problem and targets vulnerable voters, experts say

Robby Brod

November 02, 2022 |

WITF |

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Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania uses ERIC, or the Electronic Registration Information Center, to cross-check its voter rolls against Department of Motor Vehicle data from other states to identify voters who have moved and become "inactive." In 2020, state and county leaders reported they removed more than 180,000 out-of-state residents and 80,000 deceased voters.

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'We don't read print': Blind voters say new accessible ballot measures fall short

Olivia Ebertz

November 02, 2022 |

Gothamist |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

In 2022, New York rolled out a new accessible voting option for blind residents, allowing them to fill out their ballots electronically using screen reader technology. Roughly 1,000 people requested the accessible ballots for the 2022 general election, but blind voters say there are still issues that need to be worked out, such as the requirement to print and mail in the ballots.

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False information is everywhere. 'Pre-bunking' tries to head it off early

Shannon Bond

October 28, 2022 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States

Governments, companies, and nonprofits are using a strategy called "pre-bunking" to teach people the tactics and strategies behind misinformation so that they can recognize and scrutinize it when they see it online. After Twitter released several dozen pre-bunks about elections in the United States and Brazil, about 39 percent of users they surveyed said they were more confident that there wouldn't be election fraud, and about half said they were able to pause and question what they saw in online posts.

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How parts of northwestern Ontario bucked the provincial trend of a lower municipal voter turnout

Olivia Levesque

October 28, 2022 |

CBC |

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Response Location: Canada, Atikokan, Ontario

Though voter turnout for municipal elections dropped about 4 percent across Ontario in 2022, a handful of communities in the northwestern part of the province bucked that trend by switching to online voting or telephone voting and a focus on outreach with younger residents. In the town of Atikokan, about 56 percent of eligible voters cast ballots, compared to 34 percent throughout the province as a whole.

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Blind and low-vision voters hail Massachusetts' new statewide online voting option

Meghan Smith

October 28, 2022 |

GBH |

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Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

In 2021, Massachusetts debuted a new election service that allows voters with disabilities to cast their ballots electronically through a secure web portal. Originally piloted in five municipalities, the system was used by six people last year and is now available statewide.

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Beyond the US midterms: The Swiss answer to congressional gridlock

Imogen Foulkes Anthony Zurcher

October 26, 2022 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Switzerland

Switzerland has a long tradition of national referendums to decide issues ranging from retirement structures to vacation requirements to voting rights. Citizens can gather signatures — 50,000 or 100,000, depending on whether they want to reconsider an already-passed law or propose new legislation — to put their issue on the ballot.

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Record number of South Carolinians cast their ballots on the first day of early voting

Nick Neville

October 25, 2022 |

WIS News 10 |

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Response Location: United States, South Carolina

After South Carolina lawmakers passed a new law in May allowing residents to participate in early voting without needing an excuse, the state set a new record on the first day of the early voting period with more than 42,000 ballots cast.

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Volunteer-powered N.H. elections buoyed by national recruitment campaigns

Steven Porter

October 22, 2022 |

New Hampshire Public Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

Power the Polls is a national campaign that coordinates with companies and organizations across the political spectrum to reach out to potential election volunteers. The campaign then shares the volunteer's information directly with local election officials, with the goal of bolstering the pool of available poll workers.

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From breweries to high schools, unique ways to fight poll worker shortage

Zaid Jilani

October 20, 2022 |

NewsNation |

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Response Location: United States, Kentucky

Amid poll worker shortages spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and safety concerns for election officials, some states are tapping a new generation of election staffers by recruiting in the places where young people already hang out, including breweries and community colleges. Kentucky's partnership with breweries helped the state sign up roughly 5,000 people to work the polls in 2020.

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