COLUMBUS, Ga. – A Muscogee elections board plan to consolidate some Columbus voting precincts is being called a plot to weaken the black voting block there.
That’s what Georgia State Conference NAACP President Edward DuBose writes in a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice
DuBose says the proposal submitted to the Justice Department was never given to the local NAACP branch for review. He says that’s one of several pieces of evidence that the change is racially motivated.
The county’s board of elections says it proposed cutting the number of local voting precincts from 48 to 28 to save money, and to satisfy school district requests that polls be removed from schools for student safety, among other reasons.
Federal officials are reviewing the board’s proposed precinct consolidation plan.