USCMO-CAN Announces One Million Plus Voter Mobilization, Predicts Historic Muslim Turnout for 2020 Elections
The US Council of Muslim Organizations – Civic Action Network (USCMO-CAN), the nation’s largest Muslim civic action organization, announced its voter mobilization platform for the United States 2020 presidential election. The effort stems from USCMO’s successful One Million Voter registration drive in 2016. The campaign organized volunteers of member organizations and local communities at more than 2500 mosques, 500 schools, and community centers nationwide to turn out eligible Muslim voters for future elections. Since then, American Muslims have been registering to vote in large numbers.
The success of the campaign underscores the political climate of the United States and American’s renewed cognition of the value of political engagement. In a statement, USCMO Secretary General Oussama Jammal called on all Americans to “exercise their civic obligation and right to vote in the upcoming elections,” calling voting “foundational to the success of our democracy”.
As a part of the One million Plus voter mobilization effort, USCMO-CAN implores all American Muslims to vote early if voting in person, or to request, accurately fill out, and return election ballots as soon as possible if voting by mail.