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Activists review voter participation strategies

Miller, Yawu
Bay State Banner
03-09-2006
From Bangor, Maine to San Diego, California there are more than 250,000
nonprofit organizations registered in the United States.

To Malia Lazu, national field director for the Center for Voting and
Democracy, those nonprofits represent a network of community leadership
that can be harnessed to energize the country's democratic process by
bringing new voters into the political process.

It's a strategy Lazu helped pioneer in Boston and Brockton as executive
director of MassVOTE.

"Educating the people who run nonprofits and giving them the tools to reach
out to voters is how MassVOTE has done so well," Lazu said, speaking during
a breakfast fundraiser for the ...

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