Feature / “Nobody Is Resting”: Meet the Grassroots Advocates Defending the Right to Vote At a time when the US president is actively interfering in elections, these groups, activists, and officials are protecting their local systems from federal sabotage. “It was a huge win,” Kassandra Alvarez, RAZE’s communications director, tells me in the poster-bedecked conference room in the Coolidge offices. But many of the most significant efforts to suppress the vote and manipulate election outcomes are more prosaic. In Maricopa County, the elections recorder, a MAGA figure named Justin Heap, has been ramping up challenges to voter registration and ballot signatures. “Every week there’s a new threat,” says Alex Gulotta, the Arizona state director of All Voting Is Local.