Jim Crow voting rules are alive and well.
Georgia proves it.
The smoking gun is Randolph County in the Peach State’s southwestern quadrant – squarely in Georgia’s portion of the nation’s Black Belt.
The entire rural county’s population is about 7,000. About 60 percent is black. Traditionally, Randolph citizens vote at 9 polling places, but the county’s appointed election board is proposing to close seven of those nine precincts because – get ready – those seven are not ADA compliant.
That’s right. The Georgia Secretary of State’s office wants polling places closed because the Americans with Disabilities Act requires public spaces to accessible to people in wheelchairs and to the blind.