Helping Assure Your Right to Vote
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The Pilot’s article “Elections Officials Warn of Scams” (Aug. 10) warned people about a man who may have been “posing as a board of elections official” to obtain personal information. According to the article, a woman called the Moore County Board of Elections to complain about such an individual, whereupon BOE Director Glenda Clendenin said, “I told her we were not doing a drive at that time.”
We at the NAACP encourage everyone to exercise due caution whenever a stranger knocks on your door. But while the Moore County Board of Elections does not have a voter registration drive under way, we at the NAACP are engaged in voter registration drives in Moore County, across the state and across the country.
Voter registration drives have been a major part of our mission since our inception in 1909. They are indispensable in assuring that minority, working class and middle class people have a voice in our democracy.
Our people are trained to identify themselves as volunteers with the Moore County NAACP, and we wear badges or shirts with NAACP clearly visible. We encourage them to to take the completed forms with them so that they can be taken promptly to the BOE office in Carthage, and to avoid voters procrastinating or misplacing the forms.
While we focus primarily on minority, working class and middle class voters, you should know that voter registration is by law nonpartisan, and we are required to accept the registration of any qualified voter. We do so happily.
So by all means, be cautious with your personal information. But also know that voter registration drives by various organizations are not uncommon at this point in an election cycle, and that they depend upon volunteers who care enough to give their free time to assure your right to vote.
O’Linda W. Gillis
President, NAACP of Moore County
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skylinefirepest 9 months, 1 week ago
Mz. Gillis...how about forming a NAAWP and try to get the lazy varmints out to vote...on the other hand, forget it....if somebody is too durn lazy to register and vote we really don't need to be agitating them! They'll be Democrats anyway!
JimRussell44 9 months, 1 week ago
Some people are lazy, others are stupid. Case in point, it's not "Mz.", it's Ms. The tone of the remainder of your comments, skylinefirepest, is pathetic and contributes nothing to any conversation. How about YOU start up a NAAWP organization. There are pick up truck loads of members you could recruit right off this web site.
RmeMP 9 months, 1 week ago
oh how wonderful, the naacp - arent they the ones who's childishly boo'd the incoming president of the unites states of america? you know, MITT ROMNEY :)
ah yes, aren't they also the ones who gave a free pass to barry (the first 50% black president) choosing NOT to speak, and instead sending his lap dog biden?
those naacp'ers?
skylinefirepest 9 months, 1 week ago
The point being Mr. Russell, that the media and the left wouldn't stand for a NAAWP, now would they? They would be the first to holler about the racists, etc. And I stand by my comment...if anybody, black, white, striped, is too lazy to register and vote then we don't need them voting in the first place.
emb6683 9 months, 1 week ago
I'm middle class, they haven't been to my house yet. Or do they just target CPs?
RmeMP 9 months, 1 week ago
no, we dont skyline - but the left does!
Behan 9 months, 1 week ago
Sounds like the NAACP has plenty of volunteers making the rounds. One might even say that there are enough to give those in need a lift so they can secure legitimate voter IDs. Yet another crisis averted.
RmeMP 9 months, 1 week ago
ZING behan - great comment :)
JimRussell44 9 months, 1 week ago
Since white people will soon be the minority in the USA. maybe you should re-think the NAAWP idea skylinefirepest. In the future, you will be scrambling to find enough white voters to get registered so they will vote for your candidates. Rational people in this country have no problem with organizations that represent minorities. Hell, you belong to one yourself. The NRA. My only gripe about them is they should change their name to the National Firearms Association to honestly reflect what they represent.
fugitiveguy 9 months, 1 week ago
"Helping Assure Your Right to Vote"
Another case of an organization providing help that is not needed. The only reason the NAACP and other "non partisan" get out the vote groups are out there is to round up as many people who aren't motivated or interested enough to make the effort on their own because by default most clueless people will pull the lever for a charismatic slogan master who extols the evils of the rich. "helping to assure your right to vote" what a load of hooey. How exactly has the NAACP (and black people in general) benefited from being so closely wed to the Democrats and liberalism all these years?
OldPilot 9 months, 1 week ago
Someone writes a perfectly innocent letter to the editor and who do we hear from but the Jim Crow knuckle-draggers who are pathetically obsolete, so late 1800's, early 1900's. Time to drag yourself kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
fugitiveguy 9 months, 1 week ago
Old pilot-as usual the left takes the easy and phony way tact to respond. I simply think there are several more important problems the NAACP could address that would actually benefit their constituency. There is no evidence to support that a minority would have any trouble voting if he or she chose to, unless you subscribe to the notion that they are not smart enough to manage that simple process on their own. There is however much evidence to support voter registration groups (NOT THE NAACP) are engaging in fraudulent and illegal practices. The most notable incident of vote supression/intimidation occurred in Philadelphia back in 2008, I think there was actual video footage yet our esteemed AG didn't think it was worth pursuing.
skylinefirepest 9 months, 1 week ago
Hey Jim, would you settle for the National Self Defense Association?? Because there is nothing wrong with the NRA...they are simply a single focused group...much like the Democrats, who are single minded about toasting the economy of the greatest country on Earth.
getreal 9 months, 1 week ago
Good post OldPilot! Incredible ugliness immediately on the thread, why am I not surprised? I wonder if some of these nasty people would take their posts to their Church on Sunday and read them out loud? This election is a circus and we have plenty of clowns around here to send in. The nasty posts above are proof of that. So much for the "genteel" south.
Thatcher 9 months, 1 week ago
I'll read my posts in church. You should come...my church family will make you feel right at home. I still struggle with how to best tell my pastor JimRussell44's joke about the woman with the parrot, the pig, and the bartender. Partly because I don't know which part I am supposed to play or be. I think I'll get Geoff, Behan, and fugitiveguy to help me, so that we can all learn our lines. Good comedy requires flawless delivery, and we want to get it right. Cheers!
getreal 9 months, 1 week ago
Thatcher, you weren't included, you didn't even have a post on the thread until now, wonder why you felt it necessary to defend yourself? But, glad you are willing to read what you say to your congregation, I'll bet it would make for some lively discussion. Cheers to you too!
Thatcher 9 months, 1 week ago
I didn't feel it necessary to defend myself. I simply said I'd read my posts to my church. Thanks for the kind comments. Cheers!
fugitiveguy 9 months, 1 week ago
Am I included? If so please clue me as to what was objectionable or offensive and why?
getreal 9 months, 1 week ago
fugitiveguy, No one is singled out, I was curious about some who get a bit nasty and wondered if they felt some of the things said on here (myself included unfortunately, at times) would be accepted in their Church. Just shining a bit of light on responses, instead of the darkness on these threads. Maybe we all get a bit carried away and don't stop and think before we post. In the heat of the moment, words can get away from us. Believe me, we are all sunshine and lollipops compared to the posters on RR and AOL. Just saying.
Sean 9 months, 1 week ago
Nicely written letter Ms. Gillis; informative, focused, nonsectarian, nonpartisan, fair, evenhanded, unbiased, impartial, unprejudiced, neutral… OK, maybe not impartial.
Sean 9 months, 1 week ago
Firepest, I think Ms. Gillis is black. Why would she start an organization for the advancement of white people? Doesn't make much sense to me. If you feel the need for such an organization, why don’t you start it? If you go to the NC secretary of state website you will find it is not that dificult. Put up or shut up.
skylinefirepest 9 months, 1 week ago
Sean...didn't really read what I said, did you? Or is it that only Dusty is allowed to make snide comments about such things? I'll put up but never shut up just to satisfy the extreme left around here. I am certainly totally NOT interested in a NAAWP at all but I also totally stand by my comment that if you have to coerce, cajol, bribe, browbeat, or otherwise take people by the hand to get them to register and vote then they are pretty well too damn stupid to be voting in the first place. Understand my comment now, Sean?? Good!
clarabelle 9 months, 1 week ago
" skylinefireISapest - Mz. Gillis...how about forming a NAAWP and try to get the lazy varmints out to vote...on the other hand, forget it....if somebody is too durn lazy to register and vote we really don't need to be agitating them!"
too bad there isn't an intelligence requirement - YOU wouldn't be able vote -
JimRussell44 9 months, 1 week ago
Thatcher, why would knowing which character in my little joke you played have any bearing on your telling the story to your pastor? There is absolutly nothing off color or obscene in it. Jeers.
JimRussell44 9 months, 1 week ago
Skylinefirepest, I disagree that the National Rifle Association name represents all that the NRA is about. However, I will stop harping on it with you if you can convince them to lobby for a change in the 2nd amendment that says the right of the people to bear rifles shall not be infringed. And you may want to review the current past to see who has "toasted" the economy. The economy was doing nicely during the late 1990's. Gee, whatever could have "toasted" it during the 2000's. Maybe you can have Willard and Paul explain to you where the stock market stands today despite all the "support" offered by the House of Representatives. Jeers.
skylinefirepest 9 months, 1 week ago
Jim, good point but the amendment says "arms' and that means all those nasty implements that can be carried in a coat pocket as well as rifles and shotguns. Moot point anyway, because I don't see millions of law abiding Americans putting up with having their rights messed with...and the right to self defense is a God given right, by all standards.
JimRussell44 9 months, 1 week ago
So then, no problem by you in having the NRA changed to the NAA (National Arms Association)? I know this is a small point, but I favor having things mean what they say and say what they mean. The NRA, to me, offers the connotation that it represents Mom, apple pie and a Dad and his son out hunting a turkey for the Thanksgiving feast. While it does cover that, it also represents a whole lot more, much of which is not so warm and cuddly. I have nothing to say about having firearms for self defense. That is your decision. Some people feel it's necessary, others don't. I believe that is the "rights" to which you refer. We both have them.
skylinefirepest 9 months, 1 week ago
I don't care what they call it...I'll still support it wholeheartedly. But you already knew that, didn't you? As I've said before, when you're in the middle of a home invasion and your religious, political, or whatever beliefs made you decide to not protect your family by whatever means necessary then you can rest assured that help is only minutes away! Ask any policeman. It is all in our decisions, Jim, but my background has made me well aware that bad people don't put a notice in the Pilot as to when and who their next victim is going to be suddenly reminded that "wow, I shoulda had a".
JimRussell44 9 months, 1 week ago
When the bad guys come to get you, skyline, I hope you pull out your protection and blast them all the way to hell because if you don't, they will serve their two months and come looking for you again. If the bad guys ever come to get me, I intend to ask them if I can carry whatever they want to the get-away car. If they decide that they are deranged animals intent on just killing me or my wife for the sport of it, they will actually be doing us a favor. Then we would not have to continue in this cesspool of a world that people with weapons have created. You, on the other hand, will have to continue looking over your shoulder, ever alert to someone who may be trying to get you.