LeBron James Launches Multimillion-Dollar Campaign To Recruit More Poll Workers
LeBron James is taking action! The NBA star’s voting rights organization is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign to recruit young poll workers in Black communities for the upcoming November election.
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More Than A Vote, which bands together James, other star athletes, state election officials along with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, is partnering to gather young activists to work at polling locations for the general election across the southern and battleground states including Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and Texas, ABC News notes.
“There are a lot of people who grew up in the inner city who are afraid to vote,” the Los Angeles Lakers Star told reporters last week while wearing a “More Than a Vote” T-shirt inside the NBA’s quarantined campus in Orlando, Florida. “We’re giving everyone the tools, outlets.” As The Hill reports, the group has also worked to allow sporting arenas to be used as polling locations. Back In July, the organization said it would work to pay fees for former felons in Florida to allow them to vote.
This great move comes as several states have previously struggled to run primary elections during the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to safety concerns, elder poll volunteers have stepped down from working due to the risk to their health.
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