2018 midterm voter turnout in North Carolina was the . But not everyone who wanted to cast a ballot was able to do so. A showed that a change in early voting requirements disproportionately affected rural and poor voters in North Carolina.
Residents in those counties were further away from their polling place than voters in wealthy or urban counties. And on election day, aging machines and a lack of education on voting rules posed challenges for voters.
Host Frank Stasio talks to WRAL investigative reporter about his reporting and scholar about the ongoing gaps in voter access for North Carolinians. Joyner is a professor at the .
