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Curmudgeoness

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2. I don't have many answers or suggestions,
Sun Nov 11, 2012, 08:16 PM
Nov 2012

but I do have a few.

First, the League of Women Voters might have a chapter in your area. If so, the League is always in need of more members who are willing to help with the work. I find that our chapter is aging and the people who are doing all the work are finding it harder and harder to keep up with it. New ideas and more younger members would help. We have just been discussing how we can educate the high school students who will be 18 soon.

That brings me to the second suggestion. I believe that the high schools would be willing to work with individuals or groups (like the county election director or the League) who would be willing to go to the schools and give information to the seniors about how to vote, what is needed to vote, how to register, the reasons voting is important to our democracy, etc.

I am sure that there are many other ways to educate and inform, but I think that getting access to students in school is one of the best ways.

As to rental populations and newcomers, I would focus on apartment complexes for GOTV efforts during the summer in plenty of time to register. And new homeowners to the area could be found in the real estate records of home sales...and I am sure they would appreciate having someone welcome them to the area. I remember Welcome Wagon used to do this, but I don't know what happened to that group.

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