Monday, August 20, 2012

Florida A&M Rattlers get out the vote

TALLAHASSEE, Florida - It seemed like a game-planning meeting for the Florida A&M football team Sunday night inside the Galimore Fieldhouse. The attentiveness was that intense.

This gathering wasn’t about X’s and O’s, though. The players were there registering to vote. For some it was a first-time experience; others took the opportunity to make changes to their existing registration.

Invited by coach Joe Taylor, members of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church’s Steel-Brooks Institute guided the players through the registration process.

“Many of them voted in 2008 and they are very energetic about voting again,” said Rev. Richard Mashburn, who headed up the group. “We are here today to register people regardless of which (political) party they might be affiliated with; Republican, Democrat or independent.”



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