Volunteer and assistant poll worker Jean Hopkins sanitizes voting booths at Mater Christi School, one of Burlington’s polling locations, during Vermont’s 2020 primary election. Photo by Anna Watts for VTDigger

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Voter suppression could affect the outcome of the November presidential election. Will everyone get to vote in November, and will their votes be counted? “It could be a big mess,” warns Sue Halpern, a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine covering election security and a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. “There’s so many reasons why the simple act of voting has become so fraught.” She adds, “My biggest concern is that people won’t be able to vote.”

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