More than 30,000 people have chosen to vote early for the Tennessee primary election this Thursday, and research finds what happens at the ballot box is closely tied to health outcomes in communities. A report from the Tennessee Justice Center found that the nation s least healthy states also have significantly lower voter participation rates. Kinika Young, the center s senior director of health policy and equity, said the pandemic has highlighted how public health and voting are intertwined, as the state adjusted mail-in voting and staggered hours at polling sites for the 2020 presidential election. .
Young people often see registering to vote as a rite of passage, but voting advocates discovered one Indiana county has created new obstacles for them. The League of Women Voters has a long-established practice of conducting voter-registration drives among high school seniors. Ken Jones, voter services committee chair for the League of Women Voters of Greater Lafayette, said it yields several hundred new voter registrations each year. .
Despite all the news of recent changes to Missouri voting laws, some things remain the same for the Aug. 2 primary. Voters going to the polls this Tuesday still will be able to cast their ballots using the "old" voter ID rules. .
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