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Voting by mail faces uncertain moment ahead of midterm elections

Election workers sorting mail-in ballots at the Santa Clara County registrar of voters office on October 21, 2024 in San Jose, California.

How local governments are partnering with crime scene cleanup companies

A pressure wash cleaner working on a dirty brick wall.

Inside the movement to professionalize election administration

A photograph of Lydia McComas, 28, the new city clerk in Madison, Wisconsin, decided in college that she wanted to be in the election administration field.

The invisible labor of women who love incarcerated people

An inmate gives his daughter a hug and kiss during Father's Day at Joe Kegans State Jail's visiting hall.

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Michigan is short of clerks to oversee elections, but harassment and workload turn people away

Election clerk working in a dark office on a computer.

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Helping to run an election in Pennsylvania often starts with running for election

Election workers review a mail-in ballot with an incorrect signature at Chester County's central scanning location in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

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For families with sick kids, the rise of vaccine hesitancy could be life-threatening

A medical staff member administers a dose of the measles vaccine to a child at a health center in Lubbock, Texas.

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Could Trump's new HUD create homeless detention camps? Here's what we know

Eric Scott Turner, President Donald Trump's nominee for HUD director, testifies during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing in January.

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As Medicaid funding receives scrutiny, here's how it provides care for 72 million

A woman and her three children are staying at a charity that offers housing for expectant mothers in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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Job satisfaction among election administrators continues to sink, survey shows

Denver Elections personnel administrator Elizabeth Littlepage, left, and election worker William Goad, sort through ballots that need to go to specific counties at the Denver Elections Division.

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Proof of citizenship to enroll in school? GOP lawmakers eye barriers for undocumented students.

Students from Orange County Educational Arts Academy middle school hold placards in support of migrants outside the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse in Santa Ana, California.

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Who's hiring on H-1B? Here are the US metros and companies with the most visa holders.

A person submitting passport and paperwork for visa application.

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Most Democrat-leaning states

Harris-Walz yard lawn sign in a residential garden near a sidewalk in California.

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Arizona officials struggle to straighten out voter rolls after proof-of-citizenship mixup

Adrian Fontes speaks at the Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix, Arizona.