Voting is proving to be a challenge for most Americans because of COVID fears as well as USPS delays for absentee ballots. But for voters with disabilities, the challenge can be even more daunting. Myra Patrick explores...
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Leona Dunn
Listening to the voters
By Faith Boehm American University student Faith Boehm interviewed voters in Manchester and Concord, New Hampshire, before the state’s first-in-the-nation primary. Here’s what she found: Jerry Paulson, 60, has driven to...
Wash staff
Extra police officers assigned to prevent violent crimes
115 police officers to be granted overtime due to shootings in Columbia Heights.
Petruce Jean-Charles
The District prepares for coronavirus vaccine amid concerns of limited allocation
The city has more than 80,000 health care workers, but will receive just 8,000 doses in its first allocation, according to recent estimates.
Lola Fadulu
College voters: To make or break the midterms
Millennial voters have been the subject of countless polls, think-pieces and campaign advertising. But will they turn out to vote? Local chapters of College Republicans and College Democrats are helping college students...
Hopkins renovation of old Newseum building underway
Johns Hopkins University is renovating the former Newseum building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Hopkins' all D.C.-based schools are expected to move to Penn Quarter next fall while the Newseum continues to hold travel...
Ibrahim Aksoy
Voters weigh in on election process
Editor's note: American University students talked with East Coast voters to flush out what they thought was important about election day.
Expectations of large crowds at voting super centers don’t match election day reality
While the Nationals Park voting super center supported over 6,700 in-person voters since early voting started, only a couple hundred actually did so on Election Day. This morning at Nationals Park was windy and quite...
John T. Seward
Democrats push voter turnout ahead of VA gubernatorial election
Gov. Ralph Northam encouraged canvassers to help get out the vote
