Churches using 'souls to polls' to rally vote

[Judi Lynn]

Churches using 'souls to polls' to rally vote
By CURT ANDERSON
Associated Press
Published: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 2:18 a.m.

It's not just the collection plate that's getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and across the nation.

Exhorting congregations to register to vote, church leaders are distributing registration cards in the middle of services, and many are pledging caravans of "souls to the polls" to deliver the vote.

The stepped-up effort in many states is a response by activists worried that new election rules, from tougher photo identification requirements to fewer days of early voting, are unfairly targeting minority voters - specifically, African-Americans who tend to vote heavily for Democrats. Some leaders compare their registration and get-out-the-vote efforts to the racial struggle that led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

"In light of all this, we are saying just let our people vote," said the Rev. Dawn Riley Duval, social justice minister at the Shorter Community A.M.E. Church in Denver. "The people are being oppressed by these measures. It has ignited a sense of urgency and collective power that we can take by engaging in the process."

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[Oddman]

1. god has an agenda against the darker races

that's why their prayers always go unanswered.

[Fumesucker]

2. Prayers are always answered..

The answer is usually "no"..

[jsr]

3. Prayers are answered in the order they are received.

Prayers may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance purposes.