NAACP Intensifies Its Voter Turnout Effort
The NAACP, worried about the presidential campaign’s implications for adding new members to the U.S. Supreme Court, is mounting the largest get-out-the-vote campaign in its 91-year history, President Kweisi Mfume said Friday.
The National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, the oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization, hopes to register 4 million new voters by election day.
It has set aside about 10% of its $19-million operating budget for a voter education drive aimed at the presidential, congressional and gubernatorial campaigns.
“These elections are the most crucial we’ve seen for a very long time,” Mfume said after speaking to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in Philadelphia, site of the Republican National Convention that begins July 31.
“We’re organizing in every congressional district. We are in every nook and cranny,” he added, describing the effort as “the most intensive . . . in the organization’s history.”
Mfume said the NAACP would not endorse candidates.
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