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Unlike many people incarcerated in state and federal prisons legally ineligible to vote, moat in local jails -- detained pretrial or held on misdemeanor charges -- are legally eligible to vote, but are unable to do so,

Republican-appointed appellate judges continue to overturn rulings to make mail-in voting easier. Some federal judges have ruled in favor of voters, but the two appellate courts that hear cases from the Deep South have overturned those decisions.

Braving guns and threats, smoke and a pandemic, hotel and restaurant union workers are rallying voters in Arizona. And they are finding a surprising number of people want to talk about an election they see as the most important of their lifetime.