Non-partisan group encourages residents to vote using music

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Members of a non-partisan group from areas around Georgia made their way to the board of elections on Pio Nono to promote voting in a different way. 

Tuesday, Election Defenders set up a DJ, played music, and danced to bring the “Joy to the Polls” initiative. The group encourages people to vote while having fun.

Lead producer Ricardo Spicer calls 2020  “a rough year” with the pandemic and politics. He says the group wanted to get people in a good mood while they exercised their right to vote.

“Everything we do in the social space has a social contract and if we truly want to love our brother and love your neighbor, and support our neighbor,” Spicer said. “Voting helps ensure that these processes keep us all in a peaceful way and we can still abide by that social contract.”  

Spicer says the group also came to Macon for the November elections.