In New Orleans, over 2,000 demonstrators rallied on Saturday to protest the city’s plans for this month’s city elections. The Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and others called on the city to set up satellite polling places in areas like Houston to allow city residents who evacuated after Hurricane Katrina to vote in the city election. “The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is currently in the courts right now to attempt to provide satellite voter locations similar to those awarded Iraqi citizens and Bosnian citizens,” said Algenita Scott Davis, the former head of the National Bar Association. “We want that same right. We want satellite voting for citizens or the election delayed. People don’t know where they can vote, they don’t know how to vote, they’re being charged a poll tax of transportation just to come to vote.”