For decades, the vote-by-mail business was a sleepy industry that stayed out of the spotlight. Then came 2020.

A near future with racial voting restrictions and questionnaires.

A voting rights march, from Selma to the statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama.

On the Republican Party’s successful use of redistricting to “pass draconian anti-immigration laws, end integrated busing, drug-test welfare recipients and curb the ability of death-row inmates to challenge convictions based on racial bias.”