Students at Western Carolina University’s NAACP college chapter and the Jackson County Branch of the NAACP will lead a March to the Polls on Thursday, October 27th at 12:00 pm.
They will kick off early voting on campus and celebrate the recent decision by 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 fifty marches across the state organized during Early Voting. The March celebrates the historic voting rights victory in the case of NC NAACP vs. McCrory. The Richmond Federal Appeals Court found several existing 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.
The early voting period is from October 20th until November 5th. To register, voters will need some form of ID that shows their address in order to vote on the same visit during the early voting period.
Please visit www.ncsbe.gov/voter-info for additional information related to voting.