Photo by Cash Michaels
N.C. NAACP President Rev. William Barber II, center, surrounded by Democracy N.C. Director Bob Hall, left, and the Rev. Anthony Spearman, right,
announces an 80-day voter engagement campaign from now until the March IS, 2016 primaries.
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Bob Hall, the executive director of the nonpartisan
Democracy North Carolina, told reporters that the mass
'oter engagement campaign had four key components -
'oter education, voter registration, voter protection and
'oter mobilization.
Over the next two weeks, county boards of elections
ire being encouraged to devise "strong early voting plans
vith evening and weekends," Hall said, adding that just in
ase the federal courts uphold the restrictive North
Carolina voter photo ID law. Democracy North Carolina
is working to help those who don't have government
issued identification in time for the primaries* When it will
be first required.
"You must vote," Hall said to applause from support
ers present. "You must push back and show your resist
ance to any effort to make voting harder. We will educate,
and we will register voters."
Hall added that his organizations will deploy volun
teers to polling places across the state to make sure that the
public's right to vote is not impeded. They will also docu
ment whom is being harmed by the voter ID law.
"And we'll take that evidence into court," Hall vowed.
"We will engage over 3,000 churches and faith centers in
the largest 'Souls to the Polls' campaign this state has ever
seen."
There were representatives of the NC Council of
Churches and various Christian denominations"; the
Jewish community and Islamic faith, in addition to the
Latino community who announced their endorsement of
the mass voter registration campaign.
"If they could build fusion coalitions in the 1800s, we
can build diem in the 20th century," Rev. Barber said. "We
will not be divided."
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