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Vote For Change Continues Nationwide

By HQ Update - May 30th, 2008 at 8:58 pm EDT

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In the past week, voter registration drives nationwide were held as part of Vote for Change. William organized an event that met at Coffee Zone in Columbia, Missouri, before going out to the community to find unregistered voters.

"The best part was that Wendy Noren (left), our fantastic County Clerk in Boone County, gave a 30 minute presentation on voter registration here in Missouri," William said. "I think that was incredibly helpful."

Meanwhile, on Saturday, Lawrence organized a registration drive at the Atlanta Caribbean Festival. Twenty-five volunteers attended and registered 125 voters, and educated many more on voter rights and opportunities to help with voter registration efforts in the future.

"Everyone was excited and ready to do it again this Thursday at the Olympic Centennial Park Movie on the Green' Night and on Saturday in East Atlanta," said Lawrence.

A volunteer at the carnival named Kimberley explained: "It was a wonderful event. It was the first one for me and my husband, and we really enjoyed it. It felt really good to think that we will have an impact."

This weekend, supporters across the country are working to build on Lawerence, William, and Kimberley's success. Here are some events of the many events taking place tomorrow:

In Pittsburgh, PA, Barack supporters will meet up at the Trinity Greek Church at noon to register voters at the Greek Food Festival.
In West Palm Beach, FL, supporters will be registering voters downtown at CityPlace as part of an ongoing series of voter registration drives.
Down in Marietta, GA, supporters will be throwing strikes and registering voters at Brunswick Zone Bowling.
An Atlanta voter registration drive is scheduled to start tomorrow at 10:30am in Midtown.
In Virginia, supporters will be registering voters around Centreville. Shifts will begin tomorrow at 10am and Sunday at noon.
In St. Louis, MO, supporters are meeting outside of Vintage Vinyl at 11am, before spreading out around Delmar to register voters.
Supporters will be registering new voters at the Market Pavilion in Little Rock, AR starting at 1pm.
Out west in Prescott, AZ, supporters have planned four hours of fun in the mile-high sun. They'll be meeting up tomorrow at 10am outside of Wal-Mart.
And in Orange, CA, supporters are meeting at 9am at Orange Circle at Glassell & Chapman before heading out to register voters.

If you're free and near one of these areas tomorrow, come join in! No matter where you are, you can search for events in your own community or even hold your own voter registration drive by signing up online.

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