MIAMI — Voters headed to the polls on Saturday during the last weekend of early voting for Florida’s 2022 primary elections, with churches and community organizations focusing on Black voter turnout in Miami-Dade County.
Through the noise of bullhorns, an obstacle course of campaign volunteers bombarding voters with fliers of their candidates, dozens of voters at the North Dade Regional Library in Miami Gardens participated in the years-long “Souls to the Polls” event hosted by the nonprofit organization Faith in Florida.
“We have been faced with so much voter suppression, that the only way to defeat their voter suppression is to have voter participation,” said Pastor Stephanie Russell of Our Fathers House of Prayer Ministries Church in Miami Gardens. “We are calling folks from all over the county to galvanize themselves here and cast their vote.”
