In the US, how you vote can often be as controversial as who you vote for. That’s especially true now: the right to vote is one of the biggest political issues in November’s midterm elections, with laws ostensibly meant to crack down on voter fraud coming up against claims of voter suppression and reminders that the country has a long, ugly history of preventing people from voting.



These days, with some exceptions, almost no US citizens over the age of 18 can legally be prevented from voting. But individual states can make voting more difficult, especially for working-class and poor people, in any number of different ways – from requiring photo ID (which some people don’t have and costs money) to restricting polling hours (which makes voting harder for people who work long hours)