September 18 is National Black Voter Day

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Here's how Black Americans still face disproportionate barriers to voting

Friday, September 18, is National Black Voter Day. As the United States faces a national reckoning over race relations and gears up for a presidential election in 46 days, Black Americans still encounter systemic barriers to equally exercising their right to vote.

Top leaders, including former President Barack Obama, are encouraging people angry about racism in the United States to vote and create change. But Black voters still face hurdles to the ballot box because of the strains on election systems posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and racial inequalities in elections that existed long before the virus.

States and municipalities around the country face a tough learning curve in massively scaling up their infrastructure to send out and process a vast influx of mail-in ballots.

In some of the biggest election days since the onset of the pandemic held in June, a similar story played out in cities and precincts with substantial concentrations of Black voters, including Philadelphia, D.C., Baltimore, and the metro Atlanta area.

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