Word: voters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...identifying and delivering votes." The phone calls went like this: "Hello, I'm calling for the President. How do you intend to vote on the 13th?" If the answer was for Kennedy, the conversation was ended. If the Democrat seemed to favor Carter, the volunteer noted the voter's name on a white legal pad. For those who need transportation, Hochendoner has lined up 50 buses, at an average cost of $100 each...
Carter's week of crisis started in a deceptively friendly setting: a town meeting at New York City's Queens College. It was the kind of meet-the-voter outing that he so enjoys and that usually produces nothing more than a picnic of calm discussion about unstormy subjects. But midway through the proceedings, Fred Feingold, a salesman from Hollis Hills, wanted to know whether there would be a danger of another Cuban missile crisis "if nothing works and the [Soviet] troops just stay" in Cuba. The President's reply: "We are now trying through diplomacy...
Ward 6, precinct 3, a heavy student district, traditionally boasts one of the largest voter turnouts in Cambridge for national elections. When the vote is only city-wide, though, the fire station polling places are the least crowded in the city...
...bill, similar to a Georgia law signed by Governor Jimmy Carter in 1971, was strongly supported by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "We have to make it as easy as possible for these kids to register," says Joseph Madison, director of the N.A.A.C.P.'s voter program. The percentage of voter turnout in the U.S., especially among the young, is steadily declining. Madison points out that of the 3.4 million blacks age 18 to 24 in 1976, 38% registered and only 26% voted. Of the 23 million whites in that age group, 53% registered...
...Local branches of the Michigan N.A.A.C.P. plan to call on school superintendents to get them moving, and Jefferson will meet with Detroit high school principals to urge each of them to deputize a registrar to keep track of the students as they reach voting age. Madison envisions a voter registration rock concert held in Motown. Admission: one voter registration card...