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Arnold Schwarzenegger Offers Grants to Reopen Polling Places

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Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterArnold Schwarzenegger announced on Wednesday that he will provide grants to allow local jurisdictions to reopen polling places, largely in the South.The initiative represents a significant departure for the former California governor, who has until now focused his election reform activities almost entirely on gerrymandering.Schwarzenegger is targeting the effort to states formerly covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2013.

He was inspired by a report that found more than 1,600 polling places in Section 5 jurisdictions had closed between 2012 and 2018.“As I read stories about counties that only have one voting location for hundreds of square miles and.

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