Voter registration campaign focuses on youth at Milwaukee Tech College
One by one, students at the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) downtown campus lined up to register to vote on Friday. Parked on the street beside them loomed the aptly named “Blackest Bus In America”, sporting images of protesters holding signs reading “Black Voters Matter,” the name of a national voter rights organization. MATC was just one of the bus stops on the group’s “We Fight Back” voter registration tour.
“We really want to turn out the vote on or before election day,” said Alethea Bonello, an organizer with Black Voters Matter. “And in order to do that, we have to engage with the community. So the bus is just icing on the cake. But the hard work that our local partners have put in, they’ve been doing canvassing, phone backing, they’ve been going door to door, and they’re just really talking with the community about the importance of voting, as well as turning out to vote as well.”
Bonello said that the MATC event was geared specifically towards young people. Along with registering to vote, people were provided information on the candidates, and were offered tacos and music.
The bus stayed over the weekend, working with local organizations like Souls to the Polls canvassing communities. On Sunday, the campaign visited local churches in Milwaukee.
In both the presidential election between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris and the U.S. Senate faceoff between Democratic Sen.Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric Hovde, polls are showing tight races in Wisconsin.
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