"59-year-old Hardy recalls picking cotton after school growing up. She eventually finished her education, bought her own home, and had a successful career as a home health nurse.
But for the past two-and-a-half decades, Hardy has dedicated much of her free time to another pursuit: trying to ensure that every single person in Lowndes County shows up to the polls for every election in Alabama. A native of the unincorporated community of Collirene, she has done about as much as one person possibly could to boost turnout in the impoverished, majority-black county with a population of just 10,458 people...
She helps sign up local students enrolled at out-of-state colleges to vote absentee, using a portable scanner plugged into her Tahoe's cigarette lighter socket to scan their driver's licenses and Social Security cards and submitting the forms on their behalf."
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