The Greater New Haven NAACP will be providing free rides to city residents who need help getting to the polls, in an effort to promote voting in the Elm City.
The local chapter of the civil rights organization announced that effort in a Monday press release, along with a plan to have music and entertainment at two polling locations.
Radio station WYBC will have DJs at Lincoln Bassett school (130 Bassett St.), and university acapella group Shades of Yale, which performs music of the African diaspora, will be at Wexler Grant (55 Foote St.).
The NAACP will also be poll standing to cheer voters on and will offer free Jersey Mike’s subs while they last. They will also host a watch party at Terminal 110, 240 Sargent Dr.
“We are encouraging people to exercise their right and power to vote. We must remember that people were beaten and murdered for this right. Voting is our voice and our power,” GNH NAACP President Dori Dumas is quoted as saying. “We are nonpartisan, but we are not blind. Democracy is on the line.”
The NAACP is a national nonpartisan nonprofit. The national organization is also helping subsidize Lyft rides to the polls — see more below.
NAACP volunteer canvassers.