Mail-in Voting: Fraudulent or Not?

Compose a 1000- to 1200-word news article on a topic that is relevant to your local community.

• Compose a 1000- to 1200-word news article on a topic that is relevant to your local community.
  • Must be a multi-draft composition: it should be brainstormed, planned, drafted, redrafted, revised, and edited, and should appear in its final draft form as a fully realized, carefully crafted, and meticulously revised and edited composition.
  • Must write for your community or your campus, so you must choose a local story or a broader story with a local focus: this means you can cover a national story but from a local angle.
  • Must NOT use other news stories as sources for your own story. You must conduct your own interviews and dig up data and facts from primary sources on your own. In other words, you cannot build your news story off the legwork of other journalists, and since you are writing a local story, this should be easier than you think. Interview neighbors, city council members, participants, and so on and turn to government websites (like the Dallas County COVID website, for example), police reports, surveys, and so on.
  • Must be purely objective; in other words, you cannot express your opinion or judgment in any way. You must purely report the news.

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Elections are the cornerstone of any democracy. They give citizens the power to elect leaders who will advocate for their interests once they assume power. Voting allows the populous to participate in governance matters and shape…

 

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