Black Voters Matter fund host motorcade in Okolona

The Black Voters Matter fund hosted a motorcade to encourage the community to get out and vote.

Courthouses across northeast mississippi on what was the last day for voting absentee in person..

W-t-v-a's taylor tucker shows us how a couple of groups hit the streets of okolona encouraging people to not wait until election day to fill out their ballot.

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"right here in the strrets of okolona organizers of black voters matter fund and new black panther organization organized a motorcade to encourage people to get out and vote.

Pkg:sot:"voting is so important that if you don't vote, you really don't count."

The black voters matter organzation has been traveling from community to community to raise awareness about the importance of voting.

Because of the cornavirus, the orgnazation decided to take a different approach to reach out to communities.

Sot: "since we're unable to do door to door canvasing, we have to come with some creative measures and means to allow us to still be able to reach people and get the message out about how significant this upcoming election is."

Wendall paris- organizer trt:the southern region new black panther mississippi chapter also particpated in the motorcade and stated that today was not just about informing people about their right to vote but promoting unity.

Sot:"our community needs to come together and stop the violence.

I know we here for votes but we need to try to put that in there.

Stop the violence and just get unity."southern region new black panther party trt:church leader and organizer james cook said the best way to utilize your voice is through voting.

Sot: "our voice is better explained, not through violence but exercising this great and awesome experience to vote."james cook - organizer trt:today was the last day in mississippi for in-person absentee voting..sot: "we want to get as many people as we possibly can in today, to avoid the large crowds that we will have on tuesday."

Trt:tag: from okolona the organizers headed to aberdeen to continue to encourage people to vote.

In okolona, taylor tucker wtva 9 news.

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