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    • Kelly Mena
      State and Local Policy Reporter

      Kelly Mena is a state and local policy reporter at CNN based in Washington, DC. She covers state and local policy changes that affect election-day voting like voter ID laws, expanded absentee voting, and felony voting rights restoration.

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