Tackling Voting Obstacles at the Polls with ‘Electionland’

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 8, 2016

Jessica Huseman, ProPublica's senior reporting fellow, and John Keefe, WNYC senior editor for data news and the author of Family Projects for Smart Objects: Tabletop Projects That Respond to Your World (Maker Media, 2016), discuss "Electionland," a joint project with WNYC, Google News Lab and several other news organizations, which will be tracking problems voters encounter at the polls during the general election and reporting these issues to newsrooms across the country.

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