MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW)- HOPE Church along with several other churches and organizations, including Palmetto Missionary Baptist Church, Cedar Branch Missionary Baptist Church, The NAACP of Myrtle Beach, SC, Mother’s Against Violence, and Carolina African American Foundation and others are sponsored a voter registration drive.
The event was at Sam’s Unisex Barbershop on Highway 501 in Myrtle Beach. Organizers say more than 20 people came out and were registered.
” We are approaching a very important election season both locally and nationally. In a little more than a year we will have elected local, state, and national officials including a new President of the United States of America,” said Pastor Joseph E. Washington of HOPE Church.
There are about 125 million eligible rising American Electorate voters, according to the Voter Participation Center. That’s approximately 57 percent of the nation’s vote-eligible population.
Roughly 51 percent of millennials and Asians are not registered to vote, according to the research. Latinos are unregistered at the rate of 49 percent, unmarried women at 40 percent and blacks at 37 percent.
“We have this tremendous opportunity to make a difference of who represents us in government but we must register and then vote on election day,” Washington said.
