Closures accelerated after SCOTUS rolled back the Voting Rights Act in 2013.
," profiling people across the country who are dedicated to ensuring the integrity of the voting process.
But Hanson says he struggles to understand why his home of Warren County, Georgia, decided to close five of their six polling places, forcing him to travel nearly triple the distance to cast his ballot. Jesse Lee Hanson relies on his pastor to give him a ride to Warren County’s single polling place on Election Day.The analysis found that polling place closures accelerated in 2013 after the Supreme Court rolled back key provisions of the Voting Rights Act in the case Shelby County v. Holder, which made it easier for election officials to change polling locations without the oversight previously provided by the federal government in some states.
In Hanson's home of Warren County, Georgia, five out of six polling places shuttered shortly after the Supreme Court reduced federal oversight of elections. The county, which is majority Black and low income, was left with a single voting location to cover nearly 300 square miles. "I think it discouraged a lot of voters who may not ... have transportation," said Jenkins, who said she believed the county closed the polling place to disadvantage Black voters.
While the U.S. saw the gap in voter participation between whites and non-whites decline in the decades following the 1965 passage of the Voting Rights Act, the gap widened for the first time in the decade following the Supreme Court's Shelby County decision in 2013, according to a 2024 Brennan Center report.In Lincoln County, Georgia, a fight over polling places has been brewing ahead of the upcoming election. A rural area, the county is bordered by a reservoir named after former Sen.
But when Lincoln County's plan to consolidate polling places made national news and prompted backlash from community members, Bolton said she was shocked and personally hurt by the response to what she says is a well-intentioned change.
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