Savannah Branch NAACP leaders call for Voter Registration Sunday | savannahnow.com

Savannah Branch NAACP leaders on Monday called on all churches in Chatham County to recognize “Voter Registration Sunday” this week to encourage registration of all eligible voters for the upcoming elections.

Al Scott, branch president, said there are 31,000 unregistered, eligible voters in Chatham County and the drive is targeting 10 percent of those.

He called the upcoming elections the most important in memory, citing defense and health care issues as key. He said some 16,000 jobs at Hunter Army Airfield/Fort Stewart are “on the line” and cited a void created by the pending retirement of U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss.

The effort will call for both registration, and education “so that we will vote the entire ballot.”

The announcement came on the steps of St. Philip Monumental AME Church where the Rev. George Moore, urged all voters to register and come out and vote “regardless of their ethnicity … African-Americans, Caucasians, Hispanics and Latinos.”

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