City of Chattanooga approves resolution celebrating Sept. 20 as National Voter Registration Day
CHATTANOOGA, TN. – National Voter Registration Day is coming up Tuesday, Sept. 20 and the City of Chattanooga adopted a resolution acknowledging the event.
The League of Women Voters of Chattanooga and a dozen other nonprofit organizations will be registering voters and offering nonpartisan voter information at UTC, Chattanooga State, the Downtown Public Library, Hamilton Place and Northgate Malls and several other locations across Hamilton County. Online registration in Tennessee is available at GoVoteTN.com.
To vote in the Nov. 8 election, eligible voters must be registered by Tuesday, Oct. 11.
Now in its ninth year, National Voter Registration Day has been a game-changing annual nonpartisan campaign to register hundreds of thousands of voters in communities and online. The League worked with the following organizations to support the resolution marking Sept. 20:
- Chattanooga Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc
- Chattanooga Black Nurses Association
- Gamma Theta Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc
- Hamilton County Voters Coalition
- Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., Chattanooga Alumni Chapter
- NAACP Chattanooga Branch
- NAREB Greater Chattanooga Realtist
- National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Chattanooga Chapter, Inc.
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Chattanooga
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program of The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
“Empowering voters through education and registration is what National Voter Registration Day is all about,” said Sharon Alexander, Voter Services Director for the League of Women Voters of Chattanooga. “No matter where we live, what we look like or who we vote for, democracy is strongest when every voice is heard.”
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The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization encouraging informed and active participation in government, recently celebrated its 102nd birthday.