Multiple area political organizations and politicians accused the Alachua City Commission this week of voter suppression and disenfranchisement after eliminating its top precinct for minority voters prior to the spring municipal election. During a regular meeting on Monday, the commission unanimously voted to close Precinct 53 at the Cleather Hathcock Community Center. “The City of Alachua Commission spoke loud and clear Monday,” said ACLS’s coordinator Bobby Mermer in the coalition’s release. In June, Alachua’s Deputy City Clerk LeAnne Williams emailed the ACSOE that the Hathcock Center would potentially be under construction during the election. Commissioner Jacob Fletcher also posted that he was wrong to support closing the Hathcock Center.