The New Poll Tax? Long Lines, Closed Polling Stations Hurt Black, Latinx & Student Voters in TX, CA
Closing polling places in order to create long wait times is voter suppression. It is by design.
Long wait times plagued polling places in Texas throughout Super Tuesday, especially in districts with high numbers of black and Latinx voters and college students. Many voters reported waiting in line for more than three hours to cast a ballot. At least 750 Texas polling sites have been shuttered since 2013, when the Supreme Court slashed federal oversight of Texas and other Southern states under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In Texas 70% of the polling places were closed in the 50 counties in the state with the largest growth of black and Latino voters.
Very much by design, most other red states are playing this game as well. Restore the Voting Rights Act and to hell with the supreme court, racism is alive and kicking in America.