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