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Plus: Z-Lists, and Other Secrets of Harvard Admission View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Saturday, August 4, 2018 [More Race/Related »]( [Taranta Holman, 28, voted for the first time in 2016, at the urging of his mother. Now he faces a felony charge for filling out that ballot.]( Taranta Holman, 28, voted for the first time in 2016, at the urging of his mother. Now he faces a felony charge for filling out that ballot. Travis Dove for The New York Times [Adeel Hassan]( [Adeel Hassan]( Twelve people in Alamance County — a patchwork of small towns in North Carolina — have been charged with voting illegally in the 2016 election. Nine of the 12 defendants are black. The penalty for voting illegally in the state is up to two years in prison. In the interview below, [Jack Healy]( the national correspondent who reported on the cases, answers questions about the story and election law in the United States. How did you learn about the Alamance 12? Who are they? The way you find so many incredible stories — by sheer dumb luck. This spring, I had been talking with rural organizers in North Carolina about their efforts and priorities going into the 2018 midterms, and one of them asked me, Have you ever heard of the Alamance 12? I read a few stories about the case in the local newspaper and learned they were convicted felons who appeared to have largely voted by accident in the last election, and that nine of the 12 were black. I knew in an instant that I needed to write about this case. It took me a few months of on-and-off efforts to get some of the 12 and their lawyers to agree to talk with me. That’s when I got on a plane. How do voters who are ineligible to vote still end up on the voter rolls? Ineligible voters can end up on the rolls because of mistakes and imperfect elections databases. When you move from one state to another, you don’t always automatically get taken off your old state’s registration list. People convicted of crimes or who register even though they are not citizens are not always instantly culled by elections databases. And in some states you have the opposite issue — a veteran in Ohio who sat out a few elections was removed from the voter rolls as part of Ohio’s move to aggressively purge its voter lists. The fight over that policy reached all the way to the Supreme Court, which [issued a divided ruling]( that Ohio’s approach was lawful. What does the law actually say about what a citizen is required to have with them in order to vote? This seems like a simple question, but it’s actually a doozy because there’s no single law that governs voting in this country. We have federal laws that seek to ensure people’s right to vote. We have Constitutional amendments that lay out a few fundamental rights — that women can vote, that 18 is the national voting age, that voting cannot be denied because of race. But we also have 50 states with their own election laws and wildly varying rules. They get to regulate early voting, what kinds of identification voters need to show to prove their identity, whether felons can vote, how ballots are cast and counted. And this is where huge political and legal battles over voter fraud and discrimination are now unfolding. Some states do not require identification at all when you go vote. But other states — many of them Republican-controlled — have passed laws demanding photo identification or some proof of citizenship from voters. Critics say these laws discriminate against low-income voters, younger voters and racial and ethnic minority groups. Why would illegal voting be classified as a felony? Improper voting by a convicted felon is a low-level felony in North Carolina, but it’s still treated as a serious crime, punishable by up to two years in prison. A conviction affects your record. It puts you at risk of being labeled a habitual offender. And it doesn’t matter whether you intended to defraud the election system, or whether you simply didn’t know the law. Unlike [several other states]( North Carolina’s laws about felons voting don’t mention intent, and prosecutors don’t need to prove that people knew they were committing a crime. They just need to show two things: The person was ineligible. And they voted. Most prosecutors in the state did not file charges after the state found that 441 felons had voted improperly. But the district attorney in Alamance County was an exception — he said that defending the integrity of the election system was important, and he filed charges. What happens next for the Alamance 12? Will there be trials? And will the outcome have implications outside of North Carolina? Three of the 12 have pleaded their cases down to misdemeanors just to be done with the ordeal. The others could decide to fight, and that would mean criminal trials unless the district attorney decided now to drop the charges. They do not have the strongest defense because it’s hard to argue they did not, in fact, vote. But they could argue they were never told they had lost their voting rights. They could try to call probation officers or other court officials as witnesses to testify to that. They could essentially ask a jury to acquit them because they never intended to break the law, even if they technically did. This may just be the story of 12 people in a small North Carolina county, but I think it’s interesting and important. It’s about race, history, voting rights, access to the ballot box and so many of the other issues that are swirling in the fight over a basic American right. If there’s a trial, I hope to be there to bring you the rest of the story. [Read:[Arrested, Jailed and Charged With a Felony. For Voting.]( ADVERTISEMENT Secrets of Harvard Admission [] Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times This week we learned more about Harvard’s admissions process through court filings in a lawsuit accusing the university of violating federal civil rights in a way that discriminates against Asian-Americans. We offer a brief excerpt here: By Anemona Hartocollis, Amy Harmon and Mitch Smith The sorting begins right away. The country is divided into about 20 geographic “dockets,” each of which is assigned to a subcommittee of admissions officers with intimate knowledge of that region and its high schools. Generally two or three admissions officers, or readers, rate applications in five categories: academic, extracurricular, athletic, personal and “overall.” They also rate teachers’ and guidance counselors’ recommendations. 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