"Voter suppression, plain and simple": Texas closed hundreds of polling sites in black, Latino areas

Counties with largest minority population growth saw 2.5M new residents and 542 closures. Whiter areas had just 34

'The fact of the matter is that Texas is not a red state,' Antonio Arellano of the progressive Latino group Jolt told The Guardian. 'Texas is a nonvoting state.'

Some counties shuttered half or more of their polling locations.

McLennan County, which includes Waco, closed 44% of its polling places between 2012 and 2018 even as its population grew by more than 15,000 people, with more than two-thirds coming from black and Latino residents.