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Voter Registration Drive Analysis

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A voter registration drive will be held at Midtown Market in Paducah on Saturday, January 30. The Graves County High School Young Democrats will be sponsoring the event, but everyone, regardless of party affiliation, will be helped to register.

The drive is a part of push for people in the state to vote more often. In the last election only 31 percent of eligible voters showed up to the polls. Many people in the state fail to register in time and when the general elections come, they are barred from voting.
The Young Democrats came up with the idea not only to get more people in general to vote, but for more Democrats to vote. Emily Cornwell, Vice President of Young Democrats said, “There 's a trend that people who support more liberal candidates are less likely to actually vote, so I think the goal is to identify those people, stress the importance of voting, and get them to commit to getting to their polling location on election day.”
Ms. Cornwell is …show more content…

By registering as a Democrat in Graves County I 'll definitely be able to vote in any election. I 'm proud to be a Republican and as Vice President of the club I 'd love to be able to register as a Republican, but I 'd also like to exercise my right to vote, and by registering as a Democrat, I 'll be able to do so.”
Ms. Stapleton is referring to the inability of Republicans to vote in Democratic primaries because of close-poll voting, and with many conservative politicians in Graves County still running as Democrats, this creates a problem.
“So you want to register as a Democrat to be able to vote in the primaries because the Democrats aren 't really that

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