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Cast

	ARAH KANG Arah is a Korean American college senior in New England. Despite requesting an absentee ballot well in advance, she didn’t receive her absentee ballot until two days before the election. She immediately filled it out and expedited it back to the Fulton County Elections office. According to the Secretary of State website, it was never received...
	BOBBY JENKINS Bobby is a retired school superintendent and local Democratic Party chair who sounded the alarm when he read that 7 of the 9 Randolph County precincts were going to be closed in his county. Jenkins spotted the obligatory notice of the pending change in the fine-print legal notices of the local paper....
	DR. CARLOS DEL RIO Dr. Carlos del Rio had correctly written his last name as “del Rio” on his voter registration form, but the Georgia DMV does not allow spaces between names, so his ID shows one word "delRio." He got to his polling place where he has voted for years, and was told that he wasn't...
	ERIKA UNDERWOOD-JACKSON Erika Underwood Jackson is an airline gate agent in Fulton County, GA. She waited 5 hours to vote on election day. She documented the long lines at her polling place with her cell phone camera where voters stood in line for hours and hours to vote...
	JENNIFER HILL Jennifer Hill is an Army veteran and former police officer. She is one of the 10% of the Thunderbolt County population knocked off the role in the summer of 2017 because her name didn't appear in the water utility records (Jennifer's partner's name was on the water bill)...
	LINDA MARSHALL Linda Marshall is a retired professor who formerly taught government and recently moved to Georgia from Virginia. She registered to vote months before the deadline, but her name did not appear on the poll list...
	LORETTA BROWN Loretta is the advisor for all college chapters of the Georgia NAACP. She is also from one of the precincts in Randolph County that was scheduled to be closed...
	LOUIS BROOKS Louis Brooks (89) has walked to cast a vote at his neighborhood polling place in Georgia’s predominantly black Lincoln Park neighborhood for over five decades, since African Americans were first allowed to vote if they passed a literacy test...
	NIYA RAY Niya Ray is a sophomore and political science major at Spelman College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Even though she was registered to vote on campus, she was turned away because of her out of State ID, despite there being posted instructions at the polling location for students...
	NORMAN BRODERICK Norman Broderick is a retired member of the US Army and now works on a base in South Carolina. Norman voted absentee many times when he was deployed overseas. In 2018, Norman did not receive his absentee ballot in the mail...
	JOCELYN KIMBLE Jocelyn waited in line for two hours at her usual polling place. When she reached the front of the line, she was told by poll workers that she needed to go to a location over an hour away. She refused, so they told her to go downtown to a polling station where she could cast a provisional ballot...
	KAVI VU Kavi is part of Asian Americans Advancing Justice and was a poll watcher during the 2018 election. As part of her poll watching duties, she observed many people whose polling location was changed after years of voting in the same location. Many left, giving up on the process...
	KIARA JACKSON Kiara Jackson is a student at Albany State University and was recently voted as Albany Dougherty NAACP President. She had participated in many voter registration drives on campus so she was surprised when she got to the poll and was told she would have to vote in a different county...
	PEGGY XU Peggy Xu is a Political Science graduate from the University of Chicago that recently moved to Washington DC to work a temporary job as a speechwriter. She requested an absentee ballot in early October 2018 and began to panic when she didn’t receive it by late October...
	PHOEBE EINZIG-ROTH Phoebe is a U.S. citizen and was born in New York. She is a college student at Emory University and had registered to vote in Georgia. She went to vote on November 6, 2018 at her polling place, but was told by a poll worker that they could not confirm that she was a U.S. citizen...
	STACEY HOPKINS After she moved within her voting district, Stacey Hopkins and three of her adult children were part of the 1.4 million Georgia voters targeted by Kemp. They received postcards classifying them as inactive voters, designated to be purged off of the voting rolls using a method known as...

Experts

	REV. BILLY M. HONOR Billy Michael Honor is a public scholar, faith leader and civic organizer whose progressive and compelling insights have made him a sought after speaker, preacher and social commentator. Billy is the Director of Faith Organizing for the New Georgia Project, a respected civic engagement organization founded by noted politician Stacey Abrams...
	CAROL ANDERSON Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide, a New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner...
	LAUREN GROH-WARGO Lauren Groh-Wargo is a political strategist, executive, fighter for economic justice and key leader in shaping the emerging Democratic wave in the South. She served as the campaign manager for Stacey Abrams's record-breaking and history-making gubernatorial campaign...
	Congresswoman MARCIA FUDGE First elected in 2008, Congresswoman Fudge represents the people of the 11th Congressional District of Ohio and is the Chair of Elections Subcommittee US House of Representative Congresswoman Fudge consistently fights for voter protection, equitable access to quality education from preschool through post-secondary programs, child nutrition, food stamp (Supplemental Nutrition...
	MYRNA PEREZ Myrna Pérez is Director of the Voting Rights and Elections Program at The Brennan Center for Justice. An expert on voting rights and election administration, she is the author of several nationally recognized reports and articles, including Purges: A Growing Threat to the Right to Vote (July 2018), Noncitizen Voting: The Missing Millions (May 2017), and Election Day Long Lines: Resource Allocation (Sept. 2014)...
	NSE UFOT Nse Ufot is the Executive Director of the New Georgia Project where she leads the organization to its goal of strengthening the state's democracy by registering and engaging Georgia’s eligible, but unregistered African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. Ms. Ufot, a proud naturalized citizen, was born in Nigeria and raised in Southwest Atlanta...
	SEAN YOUNG Sean J. Young is the Legal Director of the ACLU of Georgia. He has been actively involved in litigating cases around the country challenging discriminatory voter identification requirements, cutbacks to early voting and same-day registration, purges, polling closures, and other policies that make it harder to vote. Prior to joining the ACLU, he was a judicial law clerk...
	RASHAD ROBINSON Rashad Robinson is President of Color Of Change, a leading online racial justice organization. Driven by more than 1.4 million members working to build political and cultural power for Black communities, Color Of Change is creating a more human and less hostile world for all people in America. Under Rashad’s leadership, ColorOfChange has been at the forefront of issues ranging from fighting for justice for...
	RICH DEMILLO Rich A. DeMillo is a distinguished Professor of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Director of the Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U). He was formerly Chief Technology Officer for Hewlett-Packard, where he had worldwide responsibility for technology and technology strategy. The author of over 100 articles, books, and patents, Rich’s research has spanned computer science...
	STACEY ABRAMS Abrams has always been a voting rights advocate and was the founder of the New Georgia Project, a non-partisan effort to register and civically engage the rising electorate in Georgia. After serving for eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as Minority Leader, in 2018, Abrams became the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia when she won more votes than...
	VANITA GUPTA Vanita Gupta is an attorney who has devoted her entire career to civil rights work. She is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. From 2014 to January 20, 2017, she served as Acting Assistant Attorney General and Head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Appointed by President Barack Obama...

Thank you to everyone who was interviewed and shared their stories and expertise

LOUIS BROOKS

BOBBY JENKINS

LORETTA BROWN

LINDA MARSHALL

PEGGY XU

ARAH KANG

KAVI VU

JENNIFER HILL

ALEX CROSS

NIYA RAY

CARLOS DEL RIO

PHOEBE EINZIG-ROTH

JOCELYN KIMBLE

NORMAN BRODERICK

ERIKA UNDERWOOD-JACKSON

CONNIE OGLETREE

BARBARA YOUNG

STACEY HOPKINS

J’LESA WILSON

KIARA JACKSON

TIKAYZIA REED

DEANDREA ANGEL WILLIAMS

DE’NIYAH SMITH

TANISHA ROBERTSON

MIKE YOUNT

AMNA FAROOQI

CHANTEL MULLEN

HELEN MCLAUGHLIN

SHAYLA ROSE

PHILIP EHRENBERG

CAROL ANDERSON

LAUREN GROH-WARGO

SEAN YOUNG

VANITA GUPTA

RICH DEMILLO

RASHAD ROBINSON

STACEY ABRAMS

Congresswoman MARCIA FUDGE

MYRNA PEREZ

NSE UFOT

REV. BILLY M. HONOR