Matt Vasilogambros covers voting rights, gun laws and Western climate policy for Stateline. He lives in San Diego, California. Stateline is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.
Just after 3 p.m. on the third Tuesday of May, Lamont Hart began his shift outside a suburban Atlanta precinct as a scorching Georgia sun reflected heat off the white-bricked Worship with Wonders Church. Tall, thin, wearing a backward flat cap and holding a notebook, Hart introduced himself to exiting voters and asked whether they’d had any issues casting their ballots.
