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All polling places are required to have at least one accessible voting machine for federal elections, but as communities across New Hampshire age, reliance on whats known as "One4All" technology is expected to grow. The number of people age 65 and older in New Hampshire is forecast to double in the next two decades, meaning large numbers of likely voters with vision challenges will need accessible voting technology. Randy Pierce, president and chief executive of Future In Sig...

Elections officials in Michigan and other states are on the lookout for organized disruptions of Tuesdays midterm elections, but say theyre prepared to deal with whatever happens. Reports from the Associated Press and other media outlets say Republican operatives pushing false claims about the 2020 election have recruited thousands of sympathetic poll workers. Michigans secretary of state has warned local officials that hundreds of poll workers may be preparing to try to intimidate voters, both...

President Joe Biden delivered remarks about his student loan debt-relief program at a stop in New Mexico Thursday, while campaigning for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. Speaking at Albuquerques Central New Mexico Community College, Biden said 26 million people already have applied for student debt relief. ...

By Tim Marema and Sarah Melotte for The Daily Yonder.Broadcast version by Mike Moen for Wisconsin News Service for the Public News Service/Daily Yonder Collaboration With two weeks to go before the midterm elections, rural voters are worried about the present, pessimistic about the future, and prepared to vote the way they have in the past, according to the Daily Yonder Rural Poll. The poll, commissioned by the Daily Yonders publishing organization, the Center for Rural Strategies, found that ...

Across the U-S, a record number of Latinos voted in the 2020 election. In Minnesota, grassroots efforts have ramped up to avoid any participation drop-off for this falls midterm election. Two years ago, the group Communities Organizing Latino Power and Action connected with more than 100,000 people by phone around the state as staff encouraged Latinos to make their voices heard at the ballot box. ...

Early in-person voting starts this Saturday in dozens of counties across the Golden State, and this year, older adults are expected to have outsized influence at the ballot box. Data from the Public Policy Institute of California has shown that older voters make up the biggest share of high-propensity voters. So, Luis Campillo, Los Angeles regional director for AARP California, said this population segment will likely decide the election. ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa analyzed COVID-19 death data in rural and metropolitan counties and found that rural Americans have died at twice the rate as those living in more urbanized counties. The health divide will only widen.

USA TODAY ," published with permission from Polity. They’re hillbillies.  They’re religious wackos. They’re conservative wingnuts. The harsh stereotypes of the people of Appalachia are deeply entrenched in the American consciousness. During the 2016 presidential campaign, those ugly caricatures flooded the airwaves, newspapers, websites, and social media accounts of powerful news outlets responsible for accurately depicting the people of a sprawling region that ranges from portions of ...

"Its troubling, especially because that older population makes up a greater percentage of rural counties.” April 21, 2021  Tim Marema, editor of the Daily Yonder, a news website produced by the Center for Rural Strategies, regarding the fact that urban counties vaccination rates are much greater than the rates of rural counties, especially among those who are 65 years or older. (

Lagging Vaccination Rates Among Rural Seniors Hint At Brewing Rural-Urban Divide Tuesday, April 20, 2021 A pharmacist administers a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to a worker at a processing plant in Arkansas City, Kan., on Friday, March 5, 2021. Researchers are concerned that vaccination rates in some rural communities may not keep up with urban rates. Doug Barrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images Chris Reimer had never heard of Leopold, Mo., when he found himself rushing down a winding, two-lane road...