As Americans vote in the midterm elections, many are doing so under new rules for mail-in ballots, stricter identification requirements and at fewer polling places open fewer hours. Texas, for instance, banned overnight poll hours, which Harris County had offered for the 2020 election to make voting easier for workers with inflexible schedules. Arkansas requires election officials to verify that signatures on mail-in ballot envelopes exactly match the ones on voter registration rolls, a process that experts consider error-prone and likely to discount valid ballots. And states from Georgia to Arizona closed polling locations and consolidated ballot drop boxes — often in areas with more minority voters — meaning that citizens will have to travel farther if they want to vote.