Chester County was hit with a Voting Rights Act lawsuit brought by black voters who claim they were forced to wait up to seven hours in the rain to cast their ballots in November 2008, with some claiming the long lines made voting impossible.
The suit says the precinct, which includes Lincoln University, has the highest percentage of black voters in the county — 68 percent — and that the polling place for many years was on campus. But after a Lincoln professor won an election to a seat on the Oxford school board, the suit alleges, county election officials decided in 1992 to move the polling place to a less convenient, off-campus site.
