However, when those well-intentioned laws can be manipulated by people in power, the consequences reach beyond a single election. Worse, because the rules differ from state to state, and the implementation changes from county to county, access to democracy becomes a lottery of location. With more than 116,000 polling locations across the country, each election is filtered through the best practices and worst impulses of poll workers who may use individual prejudices to determine the eligibility and access of voters.
