CT Latino News – Go Big. Vote Local Series Looks To Increase Voter Turnout

On October 3, 2023

By Belén Dumont
October 2, 2023

HARTFORD—Reggae and gospel melodies drifted down Main Street on a Tuesday afternoon, inviting residents walking by the Connecticut Old State House to two voter registration tables that stood outside the historic building.

CT’s Old State House and YWCA staff and volunteers from the League of Women Voters of Greater Hartford ran both tables from noon to 4 p.m. They answered questions and offered materials in English and Spanish on voting to about 231 patrons, according to CT Old State House Public Programs and Exhibitions Manager Mariana García de la Noceda.

The Sept. 19 event, held on National Voter Registration Day, is just one of the engagement efforts in the “Go Big. Vote Local” series that runs throughout September and October at the CT Old State House in downtown Hartford. The event was supported by a $10,000 Voter Engagement Grant from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

Organized by the CT Democracy Center, the Go Big. Vote Local Series has been a collaborative effort among community organizations to raise voter turnout among Hartford’s diverse community, said Barbara Glassman Dell of the CT Democracy Center.

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