The 2018 election is clouded by fears of widespread voter suppression.
Democrats and advocacy groups are scrambling in courtrooms and on the ground to resist suppression efforts.
Democrats fear Republicans have stacked the deck against minority voters likely to back Democrats in next Tuesday’s elections.
In this election control of the U.S. Congress will be at stake.
The national voting rights debate accelerated after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act in 2013.