Here is the Petition:

I urge you to relocate your municipal polling location to a neutral space as soon as possible. Choosing to move the city’s only municipal polling site to a police station not only evokes the painful history of Black voter intimidation across the Deep South, but it also ignores the ongoing specter of police violence that disproportionately impacts Black voters affected by your decision.

Grisly examples of brutal police violence frequently appear on the news and trend on social media, with officers rarely experiencing consequences for their sometimes deadly abuse of Black people and other people of color. These realities inflict genuine psychological trauma, particularly upon people at risk of experiencing such violence themselves. Situating your municipal polling place within a potentially traumatic environment for the majority of your city’s population creates an unfair barrier to voting that directly undermines healthy civic engagement and may well violate Black voters’ legal rights. 

Choosing a more neutral site for the polling station would demonstrate a genuine commitment to ensuring all voters can freely and fully participate in local democracy. Please reconsider your decision and move your polling site to a neutral location like the nearby local library.