A large number of voters turnout expected in US Muslim communities for presidential election.

 

78 of eligible Muslim voters in the United States have registered to vote in Tuesday’s presidential polls according to the American Muslim poll by the institute of social policy and understanding that's a significant increase compared to 60 in 2016. Within the American Muslim communities there is lots of work being done on the ground in terms of get out the vote efforts?Especially in key swing states such as Michigan and Florida mosques in the United States have been serving as community centers to raise voter awareness the Adams center in Virginia is one of the largest Islamic centers in the United States. They are mobilizing Muslim voters in the Washington metropolitan area and running the Adams civic engagement group or ace until the last weekend until the election. We are calling people to vote early we are making them realize that they will be able to add their voice to American democracy ashraf emphasized that the Adams center is a non-profit organization their goal is to raise awareness among voters about the importance of voting not to endorse any particular candidate organization. we have to make sure that whichever organization we work with that must be in compliance with irs section 501 c3 because we are an Islamic center a non-profit organization and cannot work with an organization who endorses one or the other candidate in addition to Islamic centers many non-partisan organizations across the united states also inform Muslims about the importance of their vote and voice on the political scene their voice matters and their vote counts in places like Florida Pennsylvania and Michigan the Muslim American community can swing the election one way or the other so we want people as citizens of this country to fulfill their responsibility and to have that impact how our kids educations are funded in the future our health care criminal justice even foreign policy all of those things matter to our community organizations say they expect large numbers of the nation's more than 3 million Muslim Americans to cast their ballots by the end of election day.