Mission:
To produce in-depth, innovative, and interactive investigative journalism and rich multimedia content about voting rights and voter fraud, including interactive databases and data visualizations, video profiles, and photo galleries.

Background:
A 2012 project of News21, a national investigative reporting project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, with support from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and the Hearst Foundations, "Who Can Vote?" was produced by twenty-four students from eleven universities who conducted more than a thousand interviews and reviewed nearly five thousand documents.

Outstanding Web Features:
Visitors to the site can search a database of all cases reported to News21 of alleged election fraud since 2000 — including the name of the accused, state, year, type of allegation, case status, and synopsis — and browse in-depth reports and videos about the people who are involved in or are affected by voter restrictions; the politics of voter ID laws; the voting registration process and how it has evolved; the issues surrounding allegations of voter fraud; and the differences from state to state in voting rights for convicted felons who have been released from prison. The site also presents the voices of Latino voters and felons whose right to vote has yet to be restored. In addition, visitors can explore an interactive infographic to learn what percentage of eligible voters actually vote.