Overall, we work to ensure voter empowerment through providing awareness, training, and programmatic support to ensure registration, education, administration, and election protection. The NAACP has developed a nonpartisan campaign, the 2008 Voter Empowerment Program (VEP '08). This program is designed to empower African American and people of color by increasing awareness and participation in the electoral process.
Over the past two election cycles, we have fought a valiant battle to register African American voters and ensure that each ballot cast is counted, but our work is far from over. During these same election cycles we witnessed a surge in African American voter turnout, but we also realized the magnitude of voter suppression strategies that continues to hinder our vote. In 2008, our goal was to increase the overall African American voter turnout by 5% more than the 2002 African American turnout.