And it sucks that the community either gets a Chief who doesn't look like them, doesn't live within the community or their Chief is at greater risk of being bullied or gaslit by racist voters & maybe the system as a whole - which in the past was certainly racist, like it's not an unreasonable fear.
And on the voter side - the ppl who end up at the Chief's table w issues w being able to check in to vote are almost never white ppl... non-white names are more frequently misspelled in the records, mistyped by workers, entered strangely bec they don't follow the First / Middle / Last pattern
ppl who move around frequently have trouble w the residency laws & getting their records updated when they move & knowing where their new voting location is each election ... ppl who've been through the criminal justice system lose their right and here it isn't automatically restored (sadly, imo)
multigenerational families at the same address w similar names can get mixed up by workers which leads to big delays while we sort out what happened and fix the records; absentee ballots are more often lost when the mailing address is shared by roommates or has been subdivided w unit numbers
it all adds up to a notably higher risk of having a long and frustrating voting experience which can discourage ppl from voting again in the future... here in Virginia we've had voting laws changed for the better since 2016- last year was the first time we had same day registration, etc