Equal Ground dispatches pastors to polls in effort to limit voter intimidation
Pastors across Florida have been spending time at early voting locations, trying to ensure that election tensions don’t result in disenfranchisement.
It’s part of Equal Ground’s Pastors at the Polls program, whose leaders want to make sure nobody is intimidated out of participating in democracy.
“We want people to feel safe going to polls and not be harassed,” said Pastor Marcus McCoy, Equal Ground’s Education Fund Faith Outreach State Director. “Hopefully the presence of pastors will help.”
Pastors are asked to show up in clergical attire, he said. That includes collars and crosses when appropriate. All also are trained in de-escalation techniques, learned in a two-hour onboarding Session that also teaches comprehensive poll monitoring skills.
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