Day 3

For the past two and a half hours, I was doing some basic data entry for the NAACP records on county boards of election. These next few weeks are very big in terms of local government, as a congressional primary is being held on June 7th. I’m willing to bet a very small percentage of the North Carolina population even knew there was an election; an even smaller one that was informed about the issues/candidates. The general misconception is that people are only affected by national elections, that all the power rests in the executive office. But the issues of inequality starts from the bottom, as gerrymandering and voter ID laws threaten social and economic minorities and skew voter participation. This is the message that Meta was trying to convey to Durham and the rest of the state through the NAACP chapters, and why my busy work was important.

-Rosie