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Sam Gringlas

Georgia's rural Black voters helped propel Democrats before. Will they do it again?

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock's campaign bus tour in Albany, Ga., on Aug. 29, 2022. (Nicole Buchanan for NPR)

ALBANY, Ga. — Johnnie Armstrong says he has voted in Albany since 1955, so he remembers an era when local officials tried to keep Black voters like him from the ballot box.

"They'd give you a bottle, a big thing with a lot of marbles in it," he says. "You guess how many marbles, then you can vote."

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