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From YouTube: Zakim Voting Ordinance Signing - Promo

Description

Mayor Walsh joins City Councilor Josh Zakim to sign an ordinance that will increase access to voting registration for Bostonians. The new legislation will allow residents to submit voter registration forms when interacting with city departments like the Boston Public Library, Boston Public Schools and the Boston Center for Youth and Families.

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Here in Boston will certainly work in committed to finding new ways of increasing voter registration and participation all elections. What we're doing today is bringing a whole new critical service to city organizations into our community to get people registered to vote. We.

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Have an opportunity here and we're gonna make it easier for people when there were routine interactions with city government, whether it's for resident parking permit a library card in our public schools at our at our community centers to register to vote, which is one of our most important civil rights. As chair of our Committee on civil rights in Boston, City Council, this has been a main focus for us working to find creative ways that we can do this within the city.