Republican Representatives of Maryland’s Montgomery County have been accused of voter suppression by Democratic reps and Maryland state lawmakers.
Montgomery County Republican elections board members voted to close two early voting sites, located in Chevy Chase and Burtonsville, and open new ones in Brookeville and Potomac. According to James Shalleck, the Republican chairman of the elections board, the goal was to add “geographic diversity” to the equation.
But “geographic diversity” may not have necessarily been achieved when comparing 2010 Census data for the respective towns:
