Georgia voting rights activists move to block a plan to close two-thirds of polling places in a majority black county

Georgia voting exercise activists announced that they will announce a petition to collect enough registered voter signatures to block the proposal to close more than two-thirds of Black County voting areas by autumn this autumn did.

There is a reasonable budgetary reason for closing the polling place, but the place they closed down is another story. In a county in Georgia state, local election officials announced plans to close seven out of nine polling stations in most black areas and announced plans to stop after statewide protests. However, according to the Pew laboratory survey, ten black counties in Georgia closed the polling place after the White Election Adviser advised them to do so to save money.

The fact that Georgia closed 214 polling stations since 2012 has exacerbated this fact. "Atlanta Constitution" reports that today 's constituencies of "one - third county in Georgia state" is less than in 2012. "More than half of the county's African-Americans population at the closed polling place is over 25%. The decision was made by individual counties, but the camping office advised them on how to close the polling stations. Kemp's behavior revealed that he violated laws such as the "Voting Rights Act", the "National Vote Registration Act" and "Support of the US Voting Law" (Since 2011, states other than Georgia I am filing a lawsuit against Georgia further.

The only way for Brian Kemp to suppress black voting is not to clean the voters. According to the Constitutional Report, since taking office, the Georgian authorities closed 214 polling stations in 53 counties. The majority of these counties, which occurred in 39 of the 53 counties, had quite a black population (over 25%). But this is not just Georgia. According to reports from the Leadership Conference Educational Foundation since the Shelby vs. Holder, the state of the South Republic controlled closed 868 polling stations. After North Carolina voting was over, the black voters who voted in the 2016 election were 21,000 miles in the case of Caucasians, whereas they had to move another 350 thousand miles to vote.