100 days from the election, so time to highlight @publicintegrity ballot access coverage on forces shaping the 2020 election: sharp polling place consolidations falling heavily on voters of color, partisan power struggles, $$ shortages, VBM learning curves - and the pandemic.
During this coronavirus-plagued primary season, some of the sharpest reductions in numbers of polling places — and longest lines — have come in cities home to many voters of color. @pratheekrebala data analysis showed the impact: publicintegrity.org/politics/elect… 
An early skirmish over adding an in-person polling place in a California special election gave an early look at how contentious decisions about access to voting could get. Trump called the election "rigged." Our exclusive data analysis showed otherwise. publicintegrity.org/politics/elect…
In Ohio, our look at the impact of impractical deadlines for obtaining and returning absentee ballots gave @publicintegrity readers an early sense of challenges facing voters hoping to vote by mail amidst the pandemic. publicintegrity.org/politics/elect…
We also examined the challenges of rapidly scaling up vote by mail in places where few voters use it: publicintegrity.org/health/coronav…
Local election officials have clamored for federal $$ to meet the additional costs associated with voting during a pandemic. Congress passed $400 million in the CARES Act - but some states struggled to meet the requirements to access it. publicintegrity.org/politics/elect…
Finally, election officials desperately need people to work at in- person polling locations, and also to process mail ballots. But most election workers are elderly and vulnerable to COVID. publicintegrity.org/politics/elect…
