This segment originally aired on PBS NewsHour.
Organizers on Tuesday took part in National Voter Registration Day, a civic holiday to encourage and register Americans to participate in elections up and down the ballot. The League of Women Voters is one of the largest on-the-ground organizations signing people up. Their president, Deborah Turner, joins Geoff Bennett to discuss the effort amid the 2024 presidential race ahead of key elections.
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WASHINGTON – The League of Women Voters is set to reach over 100,000 voters this year for the civic holiday of National Voter Registration Day. National Voter Registration Day is recognized every year during the third week of September, as a nonpartisan civic holiday where organizations come together to register hundreds of thousands of voters on a single day. Since the inception of NVRD in 2012, the League has been the largest on-the-ground partner.
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Today is National Voter Registration Day, a nationwide effort to register hundreds of thousands of voters on one single day. Here are three simple steps YOU can take to be a part of today’s voter registration efforts.