Busload of Black Voters Blocked From Going to Polls

Signs lead voters into the polling location at St. Martin In The Fields Episcopal Church in Atlanta, Georgia for the special election of Georgia's 6th Congressional District on June 20, 2017. Jessica McGowan/Getty Images

In what some saw as an observation of voting laws and others saw as voter repression, a bus full of black senior citizens were not allowed to go to the polls in Georgia on Oct. 15.

The bus, organized by the activist group Black Voters Matter, planned to collect about 40 senior citizens from a county-run senior center in Louisville and transport them to the polls for the first day of early voting in the state’s governor’s election.