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Advocacy Blog
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Sharpton Announces New Voter Protection and Voter Registration Initiative
The National Action Network, along with the National Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Council and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), will lead a voter protection and voter registration initiative in seven states leading up to the November general election.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, President of the National Action Network, announced the "Not this Time" initiative yesterday at a Denver restaurant. The initiative is entitled "Not this Time" because its purpose is to prevent the voting mishaps that occurred during the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.
According to the Associated Press, Sharpton said that "the civil rights organization National Action Network and others will begin in Florida, then travel to six other states to register voters and make sure people who think they're registered actually are." The six other states that the organizations will travel to are Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Alabama.
"We're going to send people into key states in mid-September to go into churches and community centers and have people give us their names to check their registration so that we don't wait until Election Day and find out they're not registered," Sharpton said.
Posted by Lateefah Williams
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