NAACP launches voter protection hub for midterm elections

The NAACP is setting up a hub to safeguard voting rights amid worries that the Trump administration could interfere with people’s ability to cast ballots.

The NAACP has long run “election protection” programs but is putting extra emphasis on them this year because of President Donald Trump’s push to change voting rules and a Supreme Court decision weakening the Voting Rights Act that led to a spate of gerrymandering to break up majority-Black congressional districts.