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Campaign Focus

The particular focuses of the campaign are
the University community and the
Charlottesville black community. Students,
faculty, and University-affiliated personnel have
consistently shown the worst voting records in
the city and county.

Thus registration workers are now spreading
out around these areas, trying to inform all
eligible voters of the urgency to register to vote
and of the requirements for registration.

In Virginia, a person may vote if he or she is
a citizen of the United States and aged 21 by
election. The law has been that he or she must
have lived in Virginia one year by Election Day,
in Albemarle County or Charlottesville six
months, and in the precinct 30 days. Presently
the state is appealing a decision by Federal
District Judge Robert Merhige, made last
Friday, that Virginia's residency requirements
must allow six-months residents to vote.

To vote the resident must be registered.
Registration must be completed 30 days before
Election Day, or by 5 p.m. Saturday, October
3.