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Thursday, February 07, 2008
Voting For OHIO Primary Begins Tomorrow!
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
Dear Membership and Community,
This email has a simple message. Our state of Ohio is going to be crucial in the presidential primary election on March 4, 2008. The stage has been set. Will you cast a vote and be a part of history or not? This election is so historic, that if you have the opportunity to vote in this primary and do not participate, you will likely regret your decision not to participate.
Tomorrow, the Board of Elections begins accepting votes. You can go to the Board of Elections starting tomorrow morning and cast your vote for the March 4 primary. I encourage our churches to begin to call the persons on your “sick and shut in list” today to schedule driving them to the Board of Elections to vote. Do not just take them to the polls, but help them vote. The Board of Elections thinks voting records will be broken in this primary and absentee voting contributes to achieving that goal. Help your elders who are 70, 80, and 90 years old be a part of history as well. They’ve lived under unfair laws and situations and many were strong advocates for the right to vote. Give them this chance to have their voices be heard once more through their votes.
The great thing about voting at the Board of Elections is that the discussion of provisional ballots is removed. A provisional ballot is most often cast on election day (March 4, 2008 this year) when a citizen shows up to vote at a polling location but is told “your voting location has changed”. You do not have to play this game if you vote NOW. If pastors organize, organize, organize, you can impact the final results of the election by driving groups of your members to the Board of Elections throughout the next three weeks AND by driving them to the polls on election day. The landscape of the entire election in Cincinnati would change if 4,000 more votes are cast early (before March 4 at the Board of Elections) by sick and shut ins. That can be his-story, her-story, our-story.
Yes, I am very excited about this primary! Voting is one of the very foundations for which the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was created. Jessie Jenkins the Cincinnati NAACP Branch Voter Empowerment chair has been working hard to register citizens to vote. Now we must get our community to the polls. Voting is one of the first action steps “for the Advancement of Colored People”. Ohio has had an historic role in other elections. In 2008, we have become a huge factor again. Voting for the March 4, 2008 primary begins tomorrow.
Christopher Smitherman
President of the Cincinnati NAACP
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08 Feb 2008 at 12:08 pm | #
I’m offering my services to “help” Smitherman vote. Chris when and where would you like me to pick you up?
23 Feb 2008 at 09:53 pm | #
man, wherever Smitherman’s name is mentioned, his adoring fanbase is always there w/ some simplistic unfunny remark about him…
btw, question, w/ all the hubbub regarding Florida and Michiagan’s primaries fauxpas, was Ohio in danger of the same? did we change the date or move up our primary?