“My success is tied at the most base level with the success of my people, and my people are the South," Abrams tells Marie Claire.

This week we speak with Nse Ufot, the executive director of The New Georgia Project, a non partisan effort to register and civically engage Georgia citizens.

Plus, on Election Day, Washington D.C. residents will vote on becoming the 51st US state and federal judge says North Carolina must restore voter registrations of those removed from polls.