NAACP launches drive to boost Black voter turnout in six key states

FILE PHOTO: South Cobb High School senior and NAACP Student Chapter President, Malik Freeman, 17, gets help as he registers to vote during a registration drive at his high school in Austell, Georgia, U.S. February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Aluka Berry

The initiative aims to enlist the services of about 200,000 “high-propensity” Black voters, or people who turned out to vote in a high number of recent local, state and presidential elections. The goal is to increase Black turnout by more than 5% compared to 2016. That year, Black voter turnout declined for the first time in 20 years, according“We’ve seen the outcome of when we have a drop in voter activity in the Black community,” said NAACP President Derrick Johnson.

The voter turnout initiative comes during a national reckoning on race after a summer of nationwide protests sparked by the killing of African-American George Floyd by a police officer. A majority of Americans said they were sympathetic with the protests, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll in June.

Isn't that considered election interference like what Russia does?

NAACP = National Association Against Colored People

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