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Voting is not enough, Harris tells an NAACP crowd. She wants the Supreme Court expanded.

At the NAACP's Atlanta town hall, five days before the midterms, the former vice president also called for revisiting the Electoral College

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Kamala Harris told an NAACP town hall in Atlanta on Thursday that casting a ballot is not the end of the work, and that the Supreme Court has to grow. “What I do believe we need to do going forward, is not only vote and have our voices heard there is some structural work that needs to be done, including we need to expand the supreme court,” the former vice president said.

She also said the country should revisit the Electoral College. The remarks came at the “We the People” town hall at Elizabeth Baptist Church, five days before Election Day on Nov. 3. Early voting ended Friday.

The town halls are the civil rights group’s attempt to reach Black voters in the last stretch of the midterms. An earlier stop was held in Milwaukee on Oct. 26. In Atlanta, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson joined Harris for a fireside chat. Also on the program were Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams and Gwenette Westbrook, president of the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP.

Westbrook kept her message to the ballot box. “We must we must get people to the polls,” she said, according to local coverage of the event. Organizers handed out voting tips and urged attendees to make a plan for how and where they would vote.

Harris, who lost the 2024 presidential race to Donald Trump, framed Georgia as a model. “I do believe Georgia has created a road map for what is the true voice…of the south,” she said.

The court proposal is the part of her speech that goes beyond turnout. Expanding the Supreme Court would require an act of Congress, and neither party’s leadership has moved to take it up. The coverage of the event does not report that Harris said how or when she would pursue it.

What the speech shows is where the argument now sits for the NAACP’s audience. The organization has spent the autumn telling Black voters that the election matters. Harris’s message in Atlanta was that the election alone will not change who sits on the bench or how the Electoral College counts their votes.

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3.

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