Tag: polling places

Polling places become battleground in U.S. voting rights fight

  By John Whitesides LINCOLN PARK, Ga., Sept 16 (Reuters) – Louis Brooks, 87, has walked to cast a vote at his neighborhood polling place in Georgia’s predominantly black Lincoln Park neighborhood for five decades. But not this year. Brooks says he will not vote in the presidential election for the first time he can remember after local officials moved the polling station more than 2 miles (3 km) away as part of a plan […]