Are Long Waits Discouraging US Voters from Casting Ballots in Primary Elections?
March 17, 2020, 1:02 pm
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - Abdul Smith, a 42-year-old African American resident of Santa Monica, California, made six attempts to vote in his state’s Democratic primary on March 3. Long lines at polling stations defeated him each time. “It was the first vote I’d missed since my 18th birthday,” Smith told VOA. “Every time I went to a ...
