Philadelphia City Council On The Spot: Inside Philadelphia City Council, 26 Apr 2014

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From YouTube: On The Spot: Asian-American Voter Registration Drive

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April 26, 2014 - City Councilman At-Large David Oh and volunteers held a voter registration drive for Asian-American communities in City Hall. Studies show eligible Asian-American voters are underrepresented at the polls.

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-Asian American Voter Registration Drive/Community Outreach Initiative

Videographer: Media Fellow Dante DiBello
Interviewer/Editor: Teresa M.Lundy,City Council Media Fellow

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This is a great opportunity. We will continue year after year. I hope I, hope we'll be able to show results, but we have to challenge our community. We have to challenge to become engaged, you know you can be negative or you can be positive. Everyone in this room is positive. Where you wouldn't be here, you have to believe.

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Registering to vote is the answer to many problems that the community faces and by participating. We can solve those problems for the community itself, but for our city we cannot solve the the community's problems separate from solving the problems of our entire city. I.

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Think I can have more Chinese or Asian American to know their rise to get their voice count.

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You know we wanted to really encourage our volunteers. They've been working so hard at this learning about voter registration and the asian-american stats concerning voter registration. We have a agen American voice through councilman, oh now in City Hall, so we're hoping to make that voice more powerful. So we get more registered voters and to have asian-americans represented.

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