Word: voting
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City election officials said yesterday that people in Cambridge housing projects did not register to vote in numbers comparable to other neighborhoods...
Thirty-two Cambridge residents signed up to vote at the registration rally, which featured Ted Kennedy Jr., an activist for the disabled, and Mel King, a former candidate for mayor of Boston, said Cambridge Election Commissioner Sondra Scheir...
...They feel left out, that their vote is useless, and they're not signing up in numbers that would make them a [political] force," Scheir said...
...North Cambridge housing project resident, who is registered to vote and also would not give his name, said he was not sure whether he would cast a ballot in the upcoming presidential election. "There definitely isn't a good candidate running. These people turn me off. They're like a couple of school children," he said...
Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, an expert on American voting patterns, said that registering to vote is the biggest hurdle keeping people away from the polls...