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The list of NBA arenas that will be used as voting sites for the 2020 elections

  • Twenty of the NBA's teams will convert their facilities into voting centers for the upcoming 2020 elections.
  • The effort was boosted after NBA players walked out in demand of justice for the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
  • Some arenas are will serve as early voting sites and others will open for Election Day.

Twenty NBA teams have announced plans to transform their facilities to serve voters in the upcoming 2020 general election.

Several of the league's franchises will convert their arenas and sports facilities into voter registration drives, early voting locations, and polling places for Nov. 3. The large indoor spaces are expected to provide enough room to accommodate social distancing measures for in-person voting, an alternative to mail-in ballots amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Few teams had proposed initiatives to promote civic engagement after the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis in May.

But following the police shooting of Jacob Blake last month in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the NBA started making committed efforts to fight racial inequities, after players staged a walkoff and stopped play for two days in protest.

The playoff games resumed after the league reached a deal with its employees comprised of a series of new social justice goals, including converting arenas into polling sites.

Here is a list of all the centers that will serve in the 2020 election.

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