From serial productions and The New York Times,

this is the Improvement Association.

Chapter two, where's your choice?

Being the chair of the Blading County Board of Elections

is a pretty intense job,

in a place where accusations of election fraud

are as common as American flags.

All the accusations come to the board,

and then they have to sort out what to go after

and what's just election noise.

In 2018, the year of the big congressional race crackup,

the chair of the elections board was a man named Bobby Ludlow.

Republican, white guy, he'd served on the board of elections

for years.

And during early voting that year,

Bobby noticed something unusual was happening

with absentee ballot request forms.

Blading always saw an unusually high number

of absentee ballot requests come in,

and Bobby knew that a local elections guy,

McCray Dallas, had some people working for him,

dropping off absentee request forms

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