local elections

November 8, 2019 - Mildred Russell, an 89-year-old African-American woman, wasn't allowed to vote in a special election held earlier this year in Webster County, Georgia. It ended in a tie that her vote would have broken — so officials had to do the election over again this week.

August 12, 2016 - Already a prominent issue in the presidential race, the question of refugee resettlement has become a campaign talking point in state and local elections across the U.S. South.

December 1, 2002 - This article first appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 30 No. 4, "The Right to Vote." Find more from that issue here.