"All of those barriers with voting are going to be compounded in an area where you have a high density of people who experience the gamut of barriers that there are with voting: language, transportation, awareness, understanding," says Jonnell Robinson, associate professor of geography. "They’ll possess apathy because of disenfranchisement." Read more in the Utica Observer-Dispatch article "Local black community struggles with barriers, apathy." 06/13/18