Barriers old and new combine to create this unprecedented national scale voter access disaster

Two months to elections and counting. Americans will be voting for the entire House, a third of the Senate and the president, as well as all members of state legislative lower houses and usually half of their state senators. It may be an historic election, an election in which many states will be operating under rules…

Democratic strategist and longtime voting rights advocate Mark Plotkin says Republicans just don’t want minorities to vote, according to his Friday op-ed in The Hill. “Let’s say it in simple English: Republicans are intent on stopping minority voters from casting ballots in this year’s presidential election,” Plotkin wrote. “The GOP has had to come up with…