It's an interesting read - thank you for the link. I don't know if it's quite what you were going for:
From your link:
The growth in registered voters has outstripped the number of available polling places in both predominantly white and Black neighborhoods. But the lines to vote have been longer in Black areas, because Black voters are more likely than whites to cast their ballots in person on Election Day and are more reluctant to vote by mail, according to U.S. census data and recent studies...
Huh. Interesting. So, at least prior to COVID throwing everything temporarily out of whack, according to your source, those long lines can be laid at the feet of the higher propensity of african americans to show up to vote in person on the day of.
Hm. Does it describe elections as locally controlled?
Georgia's state leadership and elections officials have largely ignored complaints about poll consolidations even as they tout record growth in voter registration. As secretary of state from 2010 to 2018, when most of Georgia's poll closures occurred, Brian Kemp, now the governor, took a laissez-faire attitude toward county-run election practices, save for a 2015 document that spelled out methods officials could use to shutter polling places to show "how the change can benefit voters and the public interest."...
Hm. It seems that it does. Is anyone responsible for overseeing this at the State level?
Since the Shelby decision, the Georgia State Election Board, chaired by Raffensperger, has been the primary body for investigating and potentially sanctioning counties found to have violated election laws and procedures...
Ah. This Raffensperger guy. That's the Republican who famously went toe-to-toe against a President of his own party to defend election integrity. He's certainly demonstrated that he's pretty trustworthy, and willing to pay a price to do the right thing. I wonder if he's tried to do anything about this issue.
[T]he Georgia Senate considered a proposal filed in February and endorsed by Raffensperger. It would have required county elections supervisors to add more equipment or poll workers, or split up any precincts with more than 2,000 voters, if there was a wait longer than an hour measured at three points on Election Day.
...."We know that we need a more diverse pool of voting locations to spread the load of voters that we are anticipating," Raffensperger said.....
More than 1,500 of Georgia's 2,655 precincts have at least 2,000 voters — many of them in urban Democratic counties — and Raffensperger said at the time that voters should never have to wait more than 30 minutes.
But the bill, SB 463, was opposed by Democratic lawmakers and voting rights groups, who argued that any revamping in an election year would cause confusion and create more ways to keep people from casting their ballot....
Huh. Looks like he did.
I wonder if State level Democrats now admit that may have been an error?
Nikema Williams, chair of Georgia's Democratic Party, said that while state officials took little or no action to stop widespread voting problems in nonwhite communities, local elections officials are also responsible, since they ultimately decide whether to close or open more voting sites....
Huh. Looks like they think it's local officials who are responsible for closing polling places, but don't take any responsibility themselves for opposing the measures they now claim are needed.