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Election Day is fast approaching and millions of new voters have registered to vote. A look at how prepared polling places are for the influx of voters, and the controversies over voter roll purges and fraudulent registration cards.
Doug Chapin, director, Electionline.org at the Pew Center on the States
Wendy Weiser, deputy director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice
Matthew M. Damschroder, deputy director, Franklin County Board of Elections (Ohio)
The memoir of a black African woman chronicling her childhood in the Zaghawa tribe, overcoming racism to become her village's first formal doctor, the systematic sexual violence used against women and children in Darfur, and fleeing her homeland for England.
Halima Bashir, is a physician from the Zaghawa tribe in Dafur. She fled Sudan for England after Janjaweed Arab militias attacked her village and killed several members of her family.
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