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Transcript: Interview: Ivan Frishberg discusses the New Voters Project
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- December 7, 2003
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STEVE INSKEEP
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
12-07-2003
Interview: Ivan Frishberg discusses the New Voters Project
Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
In next year's presidential election almost 24 million young adults will be eligible to vote; that's Americans aged 18 to 24. History suggests that most of them will not vote, but that is not stopping a non-partisan effort called the New Voters Project, which is trying to register young voters in six states across the country. The project's sponsors include, among others, The George Washington University, MTV, the Hip-Hop Action Summit and the public interest research groups, or PIRGs, which lobby on many issues in ...