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How one group pushed young Latino voters to register: Letting them Google how to do it
By Adam Wollner
McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS
WASHINGTON - A group of progressives think they have unlocked a more effective way to register scores of young Latino voters: Let them do most of the legwork on their own.
The nonprofit organization Voto Latino, working with the Democratic digital marketing firm Rising Tide Interactive, ran a series of targeted online video ads ahead of voter registration deadlines in the 2020 election in three key Latino-heavy states - Florida, Texas and Arizona.
Instead of providing viewers with detailed instructions or directing them to a particular website, the public service announcement-style ads simply informed them of the registration deadline to vote in the presidential election. The idea was that younger people in general were capable of finding the information themselves on Google, and would be more likely to follow through and register if they took
WASHINGTON — An intruder breached security at Joint Base Andrews, where presidential planes are kept, and got inside one of the aircraft used to transport the nation’s elected leaders, top government officials and first ladies, the base confirmed Friday.
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Two new COVID-19 vaccine centers being established in California
WASHINGTON - The federal government is stepping in to help California speed up COVID-19 inoculations, announcing Wednesday the creation of two community vaccination centers.
Jeff Zients, who leads President Joe Biden’s task force on COVID-19, said the initiative will help “two of the communities most hard hit by this pandemic.” One will be located at Cal State in Los Angeles and the other center will be run out of the Oakland Coliseum.
He said both locations will be run in partnership with the state but staffed mostly by federal workers, including officials from Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services.