Good morning. Welcome, Axios today. It's Tuesday, September 5th. I'm Nailibutu.

Today on the show, low quality healthcare is costing employers and workers. Plus,

telemedicine could soon be available in flight. But first, why voting may look different for you in

2024? That's today's one big thing.

There's been a lot of stories about the restriction or attempted restriction of voting rights in

the last several years. But as Axios politics reporter Eugene Scott reports,

there have been even more state-led moves to expand voting access. He's here to explain

how you gene welcome back. Thanks for having me. First, can you remind us where we have seen states

make it harder to vote, especially since the midterm elections? Well, a number of states have

changed their voter ID laws in terms of what is acceptable. It's been pretty common for a while

for student identification from state universities, which are government institutions to be

accepted. But there are a number of states, including Idaho, that now no longer

accepts student IDs. And so that is a way that's voting has become more difficult for college

students and states where their only state issued ID card may be from their university.

Another example of voting rights being restricted is that in the state of Arkansas,

there are no more ballot drop boxes and writing candidates are no longer an option. And so

what it looks like to participate in the voting process in that state is very different from what

it did in the last presidential election. Okay, but then you report that in many states voting has

gotten easier since the midterm elections. What does that look like? So in states like New Mexico

and Nevada, there's been an effort to make voting easier for people who are indigenous,

which has meant like more polling locations on reservations and helping even translate

voting materials into languages that people speak besides English. Another example of expansion

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