His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader and Business Insider. He last wrote “Power Failure: Appalachia Plans for Life Beyond Coal” for Equal Voice News. On Twitter, he is @keithgriff. This special report, part of “The Dignity of Living” series, was updated since it was posted. Leonard Hogg, sheriff for Lincoln County, Arkansas, told Equal Voice News that he started in 2014 and was unaware of the broken ballot box seal that William El-Amin witnessed.