What Keeps You Away From the Polls

Catelin Tindall holds her expired student ID from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in front of the building where she tried to vote during the November 2016 presidential election.

The 2016 election was the first federal election held without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act since 1966. In the last year, many have begun to ask: Are elections broken? Ari Berman, Mother Jones writer and author of Give Us The Ballot, and political scientist Christina Greer assess the situation.