Women's Voter Registration Group Responds To Critics
May 6th, 2008
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By Sarah Lai Stirland May 05, 2008 | 9:29:38 PM
The Washington, DC non-profit group Women's Voices, Women Vote says that more than half of the North Carolinians it helped to register to vote in the presidential primary between February and April this year were African American.
"In February, March and early April of this year, WVWV registered 26,000 voters in North Carolina, approximately 57 percent of whom are African American," the organization noted in a statement issued Monday. "No organization that would spend resources to register these voters would then turn around and attempt to disenfranchise them in May."
The group says that its mailings and automated phone calls, which featured an African-American male, and another female voice, went out to "all unmarried women – white, African American and latina – as well as to African American men and married African American and Latina women."




