1. Lots of new this week, but voting might be the only thing that can save our democracy! And there’s a new attack on the right to vote thinkprogress.org/ada-voter-supp…
2. A rural, majority-black county in Georgia said last week that it will be closing 7 of its 9 polling places before the November election. This is obviously highly problematic. But let’s take a look at how they are justifying the closures… thinkprogress.org/ada-voter-supp…
3. An election consultant in Randolph County, GA is claiming the polls are not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. He is using the ADA (one civil rights law) as a pretext to violate the VRA (another civil rights law) thinkprogress.org/ada-voter-supp…
4. The consultant is not the first to come up with this deceptive tactic. Under Trump, the Justice Department has ramped up its ADA-enforcement actions against counties it claims have non-compliant polling locations thinkprogress.org/ada-voter-supp…
5. And guess what? Most of the jurisdictions the DOJ is targeting have significant minority populations thinkprogress.org/ada-voter-supp… 
6. It’s a tactic that attorneys have seen used in counties with large Native American populations in the West. And now it’s being used in a majority-black county in the South thinkprogress.org/ada-voter-supp…
7. So to summarize, the people tasked with strengthening our elections are using federal disability law as a pretext to make it more difficult for non-white voters to cast ballots thinkprogress.org/ada-voter-supp…
8. There’s widespread awareness about many voter suppression tactics, like voter ID laws and cuts to voting hours. This new tactic has been flying under-the-radar, and it could have significant effects thinkprogress.org/ada-voter-supp…
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