Bishop William J. Barber II and a coalition of civil rights, faith, and voting rights organizations started an early voting mobilization effort Thursday, leading marches to polling places across North Carolina.
The marches marked the first day of in-person early voting in North Carolina, with members of Barber’s Love Forward Together Voter Mobilization Initiative gathering in northwest Charlotte on Thursday for a “March to the Polls.”
Organizers are supplementing the marches with text messaging campaigns, phone banks and door-to-door canvassing designed to reach voters where they live and make sure they know when, where and how to vote…