Rio Grande Valley: Battleground Texas energizing young voters
Sarah Chavez approaches politics with the zeal of a missionary.
The University of Texas-Pan American senior estimates she spends 40 or more hours a week registering people to vote, getting them into classes to become voting registrars, making follow-up calls and, now, running the Battleground Texas Club at the University of Texas-Pan American.
“I find that I’m just carrying around a clipboard and I ask people if they want to get registered and it just becomes part of what you do,” she said, as she stood outside Cine El Rey on Monday, looking for potential marks to sign up to vote.
Chavez, whose parents’ missionary work brought her to the Rio Grande Valley, worked the crowd with other Battleground Texas volunteers during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at the theater. Inside the theater and out, Chavez persistently and cheerfully pestered event-goers, reminding them of the importance of voting.
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Thank you, Ms. Chavez!
