Whose Ballots Are Rejected? Demographic Dynamics of Provisional Ballots in North Carolina from 2010-2020 

Jimmy helped create a nonpartisan voter education website for a national youth voter education organization called My Vote, founded by survivors of the Parkland Massacre. During the summer, Jimmy also began the research for his senior thesis on provisional ballots as a Bass Research Fellow. In the fall, he wrote his senior thesis entitled “Whose Ballots are Rejected? Demographic Dynamics of Provisional Ballots in North Carolina from 2010 to 2020,” under the supervision of Catherine Admay. Jimmy’s thesis explored the large differences in the rates of casting and rejecting provisional ballots by race in North Carolina, findings that were helpful to future teams of Bass student researcher who investigated how and why young people and young Black citizens in liberal bastions like Durham County have experienced the highest rates of provisional ballot rejection in the state. You can see Jimmy present his research at a recent youth voting rights summit at Duke and its contribution to a new cohort of Bass student researchers here.