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How to Advance the Rock the Vote Campaign

There's this motor voter bill that's been bouncing around Congress since the 1970s. It was really making it easier for lots of people including rock loving young people to register to vote. By 91 a few states had already adopted it but Congress had never been able to get it passed nationally. A Columbia sociologist and political activist Richard Cloward said that writing to elected officials could help sway them on the issue. So getting 150, 200 letters about an issue would definitely make them sit up and take notice.

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