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BLACK LEADERS MEET WITH NEW ORLEANS OFFICIAL: Jesse, NAACP’s Gordon have face-to-face with LA secretary of state over elections.
*One day after a federal judge ruled against postponing the April 22 elections in New Orleans, African American leaders are refusing to go home quietly and have taken their fight directly to Louisiana's secretary of state.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, NAACP President Bruce Gordon and state political leaders met with Secretary or State Al Ater for more than an hour Tuesday to discuss three particular issues about the upcoming election: providing access and distribution of voter lists to all candidates, moving the election date to ensure candidates and displaced voters have an opportunity to be better informed, and satellite voting sites outside of the state.
"We generally believe in order to maximize voter participation in the state of Louisiana satellite voting needs to be set up not only within the state, but outside of the state in whatever metropolitan areas, whatever locales across this country where there are concentrations of displaced New Orleans' voters," Gordon said.
State Sen. Cedric Richmond, chairman of the Black Caucus, said a bill which would allow satellite voting outside of the state was to be heard in a legislative committee Wednesday.
