LeBron James and other athletes launched the organization to help African Americans vote
The organization, dubbed “More Than a Vote,” will team up with other electoral organizations and work to get African Americans to register to vote and vote on the ballot in November.
“Because of everything that’s happening, people are finally starting to listen to us – we feel like we’ve finally stepped foot in the door,” James told The Times in a telephone interview. “How long it’s been on us. We don’t know. But we feel like we’re getting ears and some attention, and this is the time to finally change something.”
“We want you to go out and vote, but we will also give you a textbook,” he added. “We will bring you a background on how to vote and what they are trying, on the other hand, to stop you from voting.”
Athletes Trae Young, Skylar Diggins-Smith and Jalen Rose joined to help the organization, the paper reported.
Kyle Lierman, director of the nonprofit When We All Vote, shared James ’post on Twitter.
Fair Fight, an organization launched by Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, which advocates fair elections, also tweeted about James ’announcement.
Hundreds stood in line for hours, often past the scheduled closing time of the poll, and several locations had difficulty with machines not working and temporary ballots lacking.
“There’s always some tricky trick being played,” Bobby Fuse, a longtime Democratic activist from America in the state of Georgia, told CNN. “This time they had a whole bunch of creepy tricks.”
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