The efforts target college students, first-time voters, and the formerly incarcerated, particularly in the South.

Kamora Greggs returned to her college campus with voting on her mind. She’d just visited her home in Jackson, Mississippi, about three hours away, when her mom encouraged her to exercise her right. “And don’t have anybody change your mind about what you want to do,” Greggs recalled. As a first time voter, the 19-year-old health and kinesiology major wanted to know more about the process…

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