USA. – NBA superstar LeBron James has helped recruit 10,000 election workers into black electoral districts for the 2020 presidential election. James-led star athlete collective, nicknamedMore than a vote, organized the demonstration to increase workers as part of the joint “We Got Next” initiative with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the New York Times reported for the first time.
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The collaboration will be presented Wednesday night during the first NBA Finals game between James’ Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat.
Election workers for the first time organized through the show will be in the game’s virtual audience alongside basketball legends such as Julius Erving, Shaquille O’Neill and Dwyane Wade, according to the newspaper.
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A second phase of the project will focus on increasing election workers in 11 cities where there is still shortages and others located in cities in major states on the battlefield, including Birmingham, Jackson, Houston, Cleveland, Detroit, Flint, Milwaukee and Philadelphia.
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Sherrilyn Ifill, director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said boosting election workers is crucial to combating voter suppression and improving trust in the process among black voters when she discussed the effort with The Times earlier this summer.” We need more election workers and we need younger election workers who can be resilient and work during early voting as well,” Ifill said.
