From the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Reveal. I'm Alexan.

There's a lot of anxiety this year over the presidential election, especially now that

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19. Fear

of the coronavirus is affecting the way people will vote this year. I live in California

and I know I can safely vote from home by mailing in my ballot. All voters here have

had that option since the late 1970s. But that's not the norm everywhere. This year about

twice as many people could vote by mail compared to the last presidential election. That's

around 80 million people according to the New York Times. State and local election officials

are scrambling to figure out how to get all those ballots to voters and how to count them

once they've been mailed in. In the middle of all of this, President Trump has repeatedly

made the false claim that mail-in voting would lead to massive fraud. There is no evidence

of that. But the president recently up the stakes by saying he might not accept the election

results. You've probably heard that piece of tape over and over again by now because

well, it's astounding. Every vote will count in an election that could come down to a few

thousand ballots rejected, a few thousand voters missing a deadline, a few thousand people

who just don't vote because they've lost faith in the system. Today, we're teaming up with

APM reports and public media newsrooms to investigate efforts around the country to suppress

the vote. We begin in Wisconsin, a state that's crucial this year, not just because it could

decide the election, but because it serves as an extreme example of how making it harder

to vote can change the balance of power. Reveals Ixrie's Kandaraja takes us to his home

state. I talked with Tristan Thomas. He's a 38-year-old logistics technician living in

Appleton, Wisconsin. That's about two hours north of Milwaukee. I've been a rest of

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