Reply #9: KS: Radical Reduction of Polling Places = Voter Suppression [View All]

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it’s certainly the case. I remember when this was first covered a few months ago. Clearly the outcome is going to be fewer voters. The further you move a resource from someone’s home, the less that resource is accessed. They know this out there. Maybe they had temporary amnesia. Thanks to the League of Women Voters, there is a counter campaign to rev things up for the minority and poor community.

The Wichita Eagle
Group works to aid voters

http://tinyurl.com/rx4yp

BY BRENT D. WISTROM AND CATHERINE HO
HOW TO VOTE IN ADVANCE

Alarmed by the elimination of nearly 70 percent of Sedgwick County's polling places, a newly formed voters' coalition is launching an educational campaign it hopes will ensure that everyone who wants to vote in the August primaries can.

The Sedgwick County Voters' Coalition will start with 30-second public service announcements that they hope local TV stations will air, said Ernestine Krehbiel, co-president of the League of Women Voters Wichita-Metro, which is heading up the coalition.

But other calls to action and election concerns will be announced at a news conference this morning, Krehbiel said, "The biggest concern we have is -- whether it's deliberate or accident -- that there will be voter suppression," Krehbiel said. "Democracy in Sedgwick County is being damaged."

The voter awareness campaign comes about two months after The Eagle broke a story about the elimination of more than 140 voting locations and is the first major educational effort to date.