Cleo Fields said "You are a former student leader on your college campus. How did you and your colleagues encourage young people or get young people at North Carolina A&T registered to vote? Let us face it, there are a lot of students who are not from North Carolina, who really do not care about the local politics of North Carolina, some not even concentrating on national politics, either. They are at North Carolina A&T just to get an education. When I was at Southern, that was one of the big things I had to face, trying to encourage students to register to vote, though they were not from the State. What did you do to encourage nonresidents, so to speak, though they are residents once they register for school, to take an interest in registering to vote and actually vote on an election day?" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordSeptember 11, 1996

You are a former student leader on your college campus. How did you and your colleagues encourage young people or get young people at North Carolina A&T registered to vote? Let us face it, there are a lot of students who are not from North Carolina, who really do not care about the local politics of North Carolina, some not even concentrating on national politics, either. They are at North Carolina A&T just to get an education. When I was at Southern, that was one of the big things I had to face, trying to encourage students to register to vote, though they were not from the State. What did you do to encourage nonresidents, so to speak, though they are residents once they register for school, to take an interest in registering to vote and actually vote on an election day?

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Cleo Fields

Democratic · Louisiana

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing efforts to engage college students in voter registration and participation.

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