Your Vote Matters event draws large safely distanced crowd

This past Saturday numerous non-profits gathered to help residents become active members of their community by voting, completing the census which determines national funding for local needs, and political action and advocacy.

Among the groups represented were the City of New Haven, Registrar of Voters, US Census Bureau,The New Haven Complete Count committee, Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc., Greater New Haven NAACP, Project M.O.R.E, Urban League of Southern CT, Witness to Hunger, and Jennifer Roberts with the City of New Haven Health Dept. Immunization Action Plan.

Ugly Radio provided the tunes and encouragement to the safely distanced and masked crowd, and there were free tacos and ice cream available to participants.

New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker spoke as well as State Senator Gary Winfield.

I spoke with Addie Kimbrough, census volunteer who seemed to be everywhere at once; ensuring the census taker with the Ipad was helping people enter their census info, lining up the community members who were speaking, and 'working the crowd'. Back in August, Addie was "hitting the streets in 100-degree heat... to encourage people to take the census."

The event ran from 11 to 4.

You can fill out the census here: https://my2020census.gov/

To see if you're already registered to vote, go here: https://portaldir.ct.gov/sots/...

Click any of the links above to get involved, get education, and volunteer.