Oklahoma Poor People’s Campaign marches for Voter Turnout

LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) – The Oklahoma chapter of the Poor Individuals’s Marketing campaign marched via downtown Lawton on Saturday.

“Whenever you elevate from the underside, everybody rises,” Oklahoma Poor Individuals’s Marketing campaign tri-chair Marianne Smith stated.

In the future after the top of voter registration, an Oklahoma group desires to inspire folks to point out as much as the polls.

“Voter registration is over, however the work’s not achieved. Now, all people that’s registered actually has to get out and vote,” Smith stated.

The Oklahoma Poor Individuals’s Marketing campaign marched from Metropolis Corridor to the Comanche County Courthouse to boost consciousness about their mission to assist folks vote.

“When you’re registered, how do you then enact that and truly exit and do it,” native minister and march participant Devon Reynolds stated.

The group stated they’re involved in regards to the low voter turnout final election.

“Over fifty p.c of the Oklahomans registered voters didn’t vote,” Smith stated.

The Poor Individuals’s marketing campaign stated they’re prepared to assist folks get to the poll field.

“There’s organizations, whether or not it’s poor peoples campaigns, totally different group facilities everywhere in the metropolis… everywhere in the county that might be working to assist them to have the ability to categorical that vote,” Reynolds stated.

The March was simply considered one of dozens hosted by Poor Individuals’s Campaigns that occurred concurrently throughout the nation.

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