In 2012, Helen Ho set out to register Asian Americans to vote in Georgia. Two years prior, she had founded a small nonprofit to increase civic engagement among this growing minority population, and she found that the most fruitful way to register new voters was at naturalization ceremonies. Soon, she and her small staff were attending two to three ceremonies each week and helping newly minted citizens fill out and turn in voter registration forms.
Brian Kemp’s Voter Suppression Efforts Could Help Elect Him Governor
Pema Levy, Mother Jones
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 3:00am
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