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Follow live coverage of the 2018 midterm elections, including results and analysis. Get caught up on the latest news.

America Voted, But Not Everyone Had Their Say

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2018 midterm voter turnout in North Carolina was the highest its been in decades. But not everyone who wanted to cast a ballot was able to do so. A pre-election analysis from WRAL showed that a change in early voting requirements disproportionately affected rural and poor voters in North Carolina.

Residents in those counties were further away from their polling place than voters in wealthy or urban counties. And on election day, aging machines and a lack of education on voting rules posed challenges for voters.

Host Frank Stasio talks to WRAL investigative reporter Tyler Dukes about his reporting and scholar Irving Joyner about the ongoing gaps in voter access for North Carolinians. Joyner is a professor at the North Carolina Central University School of Law.

Amanda Magnus is the executive producer of Embodied, a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships and health. She has also worked on other WUNC shows including Tested and CREEP.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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