Press Release from the Jackson County branch of NAAP NC Conference:
On Thursday, October 27th, 2016 at 12 pm, students at Western Carolina University’s NAACP college chapter and the Jackson County Branch of the NAACP will lead a March to the Polls to kick-off the Early Voting on campus and celebrate the NAACP’s voting rights victory in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. People are invited to the march gathering place in front of the H.F. Robinson Administration building at the main entrance to campus. The march will end at the Early Voting polling site at WCU – the first ever located on the WCU campus.
The March to the Polls will be part of the statewide “It’s Our Time, It’s Our Vote” campaign to register, educate, mobilize and protect the vote in North Carolina. The WCU march is one of more than 50 marches across the state organized during Early Voting. The March celebrates the historic voting rights victory in the case of NC NAACP vs. McCrory.
Gov. McCrory and those in in power at the State Legislature passed “the worst voter suppression law” in the nation– “surgically targeting” Black and other voters of color, students and people in college– by cutting and eliminating many provisions that had historically made North Carolina’s voting system one of the best in the nation. The Richmond Federal Appeals Court found these voter suppression ploys to be unconstitutional, and banned their use in a decision filed on July 29, 2016.
Because of the court victory in NC NAACP v. McCrory, voters do NOT need an ID to vote. Early Voting is from October 20th until November 5th. To register (voters will need some form of ID that shows their address to register) in order to vote on the same visit during Early Voting.
When: Thursday, October 27, 2016, at 12 p.m.
Where: H.F. Robinson Administration Building, Western Carolina University Cullowhee Campus
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