Celebrate National Voter Registration Day with Voting Rights Advocates at Blackburn Park
Advancing Justice-Atlanta and partners plans to help register voters in Metro Atlanta to celebrate the national holiday.
STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 19, 2022
CONTACT:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, James Woo, jwoo@advancingjustice-atlanta.org
Atlanta, GA — On September 20, 2022, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta and partner organizations will celebrate National Voter Registration Day by joining a massive cross-country effort to help register voters ahead of midterm elections.
Every eligible voter should have the option to exercise their right to be heard at the ballot box, and on National Voter Registration Day that starts with getting registered. Communities across the country, in all 50 states and D.C., are planning to use National Voter Registration Day to get registered and be #VoteReady.
2022 marks National Voter Registration Day’s 10th anniversary.
Thousands of national, state, and local organizations and volunteers will be the driving force behind National Voter Registration Day 2022. On September 20, Advancing Justice-Atlanta and partner organizations are hosting an event at Blackburn Park in Brookhaven, Georgia to engage our communities and help register voters, as well as provide free food, music, voter information, and activities. Everyone is welcome to this family friendly event.
“As we face critical times for our communities with the elections in 2022, we are working to build public awareness on the importance of AAPI, Latinx, and other immigrant voters in key areas,”says Berenice Rodriguez, Civic Engagement and Organizing Director at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta. “As our community continues to grow in its electoral power, we will continue to help increase voter registration and voter turnout with in-language information to fight for everyone’s right to vote”.
As a nonpartisan celebration of democracy, National Voter Registration Day counts on partners and volunteers across the political spectrum. Started in 2012 for the presidential election, National Voter Registration Day is designed to create an annual moment when the entire nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote.
WHAT: National Voter Registration Day Event
WHEN: 5:30-7.30pm EST, Tuesday, September 20, 2022
WHERE: Blackburn Park, 3493 Ashford Dunwoody Rd, Brookhaven, GA 30319
About Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta. Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta is the first nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (AANHPI) and Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities in Georgia and the Southeast. Advancing Justice-Atlanta’s work encompasses policy advocacy, organizing & civic engagement, impact litigation, and immigration legal services. Its vision is to build a social movement in which communities of color are fully empowered, active in civic life, and working together to promote equity, fair treatment, and self determination for all.
