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3. Maybe it isn't so bad?
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 07:56 PM
Oct 2018

Found an article about the group. They sent out absentee ballot apps in OK to increase voter participation.

Group says increased voter participation goal of targeted mailings

A nonprofit social welfare organization recently mailed out absentee ballot applications to 59,000 Oklahomans with the goal of increasing voter participation among groups that traditionally have had low voter turnouts.

African-Americans, Latinos, millennials and unmarried women were among groups targeted for the mass mailing by The Center for Voter Information.

"Voting is our most essential American right, and yet 40 million Americans who voted in 2016 likely won't cast a ballot in the 2018 midterms, said Lionel Dripps, program director for The Center for Voter Information.

https://newsok.com/article/5610936/group-says-increased-voter-participation-goal-of-targeted-mailings

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