Voter Registration Drive In West Orange For 2022 MLK Day

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The West Orange African Heritage Organization (WOAHO) will hold a voter registration drive on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 17.

“We will honor the memory of Martin Luther King by engaging in civil activism as he encouraged,” said Althia Tweiten, president of the WOAHO.

"Voting rights are under attack as state after state has enacted voter suppression laws, Americans must vote to save our democracy from those who would destroy it,” WOAHO Historian Brent Scott said.

The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR-4) and The Freedom to Vote Act (HR-1). Both measures were passed by the House of Representatives in 2021 and are awaiting passage in the U.S. Senate. Together with the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (which would restore and update the full protections of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965), the Freedom to Vote Act would be the most comprehensive democracy reform law enacted in decades.

The voter registration drive is open to all. Please come and register to vote. If you are already registered, bring someone you know who is not yet registered.

“How anyone chooses to vote is a private matter but you can’t vote if not registered,” Scott added.

Here’s when and where the WOAHO VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE will take place:

• When: Monday, January 17, Martin Luther King Day
• Location: South Valley BBQ (34 S. Valley Road in West Orange)
• Time: 3 to 6 p.m.

For more information visit the West Orange African Heritage Organization website www.woaho.org.

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