Texans Fight Back Against Suppression Efforts On National Voter Registration Day

[Tx4obama]

HOUSTON, Texas — Last week, the nation learned about True The Vote, a Houston-based tea party group that fans out to heavily-minority precincts and challenges voters’ ballots.

As they work to suppress voters this election, across town, a far different story was unfolding: scores of volunteers fanning out not to stop people from voting, but to help them vote.

ThinkProgress was on the ground for the first annual National Voter Registration Day, a nationwide event for grassroots groups to help register voters. (The day was designed to take place prior to October 6, when Texas and a handful of other states have their registration deadline.) We attended numerous events throughout the day, including a radio-hyped registration table outside a breakfast diner, a hip-hop concert where tickets were distributed to those who registered and/or pledged to vote, and a comedy show where the comic interspersed jokes with pleas for young folks to get out and vote.

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Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/09/29/926241/national-voter-registration-day/

[James48]

1. REGISTER

and



V-O-T-E!

[SamKnause]

2. Texans fight back

Thanks to all the volunteers.

Keep up the good work.

Register and VOTE !!!