During COVID lockdowns, some states expanded remote voting options to all voters. One of those options was allowing disabled voters to download and, in some cases, return their ballots electronically. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams spoke with Michelle Bishop, voter access and engagement manager at the National Disability Rights Network, about why smart and safe tech accommodations, like electronic voting, can boost disabled voter turnout. Watch a new episode of Decoding Democracy on YouTube at mkt

The family of a 23-year-old student killed in protests in Iran have spoken of having to sift through hundreds of young people’s bodies to find her. Rubina Aminian, a fashion student at Shariati College in Tehran, was killed after leaving the college and joining protest gatherings. Sources close to her family told Iran Human Rights that the young Kurdish woman was shot from close range from behind in the head. | Metro