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What would get young people to vote? These teens have some ideas

By Student Reporting Labs

Will the youth vote turn out on Tuesday? NewsHour Student Reporting Labs interviewed 300 young people to get the next generation’s take on why it is important to vote.

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November 3, 2018 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

By PBS News Hour

On this edition for Saturday, Nov. 3, one week after 11 people were shot to death in a Pittsburgh synagogue, an interfaith call for unity and discussing how Brazil’s far-right president-elect will lead the country. Later, populism reigns in Hungary…

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Hospitals help patients get out the vote while stuck in bed

By Kristen de Groot, Associated Press

For those in the hospital unexpectedly, that process isn't exactly simple.

At least 50 Afghans died in election day violence. Will future votes be safer?

By Larisa Epatko

Despite a shroud of violence and voting delays, more than 4 million Afghans cast their ballots in parliamentary elections last weekend, according to the country’s election commission.

In Georgia, black voters were ordered off a bus headed to the polls

By Associated Press

A group that encourages African-Americans to vote says about 40 black residents of a senior living center in Georgia were told to get off a bus taking them to the first day of in-person early voting.

Formerly convicted Florida residents sound off on voter disenfranchisement

By Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green

On Nov. 6, more than six million Americans will be unable to vote because of a felony conviction on their records. More than a quarter of them live in Florida.

How Australia can help the U.S. make democracy harder to hack

By Scott Shackelford, Matthew Sussex, The Conversation

In the drumbeat of reports about Russian attempts to undermine U.S. democratic institutions with trolls, Twitter bots and cyberattacks on congressional candidates, it is easy to forget that the problem of…

Michigan voters to decide how their electoral maps are drawn

By Jeff Karoub, Associated Press

Voters in Michigan will decide in November whether to entrust how their voting districts are drawn to an independent commission rather than the Legislature.

Young people feel anxious about election, poll finds

By Juana Summers, Associated Press

With weeks to go until the November midterm elections, more young Americans are interested but, according to a new poll, they're also feeling more anxious about the results.

Lack of paper trail a concern amid fears of election hacking

By Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press

As the midterm congressional primaries heat up, roughly 1 in 5 Americans will be casting ballots on machines that do not produce a paper record of their votes.