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Only slightly taller than the podium she spoke from and wearing a straw hat with a feather stuck in it, Haddock delivered a fiery speech at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night on the need for more Americans, especially young working women, to vote...
...Doris Haddock, better known as “Granny D,” the 93-year-old woman who walked across the country from 1999 to 2000 to advocate campaign finance reform, is on the move again...
...Today Haddock is starting a 14-month tour through cities and towns across the United States to encourage greater voter participation. And Harvard is her first stop...
...team,” she said, alluding to the fact that only around 50 percent of the U.S. voting age population cast ballots in the 2000 national elections. There are roughly 64 million working women in the United States, most of whom are eligible to vote, according to Haddock. But only about half of those women are registered voters...
...It’s not an easy life” to be a working mother, said Haddock, who has worked all her life. That is why she is using her trek in the next 14 months to disseminate voter registration forms to working women...