Illinois Volunteers Get Out the Immigrant Vote Today

Hundreds of volunteers throughout Chicago and Suburbs are geting out the immigrant vote through door knocking and phone banking today.

Wellstone Action partner, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) is working in coordination with host organizations, campaign fellows, and hundreds of volunteers to get out the immigrant vote in an unprecedented effort. ICIRR'S New Americans Democracy Project "Our Vote is Power" campaign seeks to mobilize 144,000 immigrant voters today in the Latino, Asian, South Asian, Polish, Arab and Muslim communities of Chicago and suburbs.

Starting at 6am today, volunteers arrived to the campaign headquarters. They were trained and sent to knock on doors, drop literature with polling place information and to place posters in businesses encouraging voters to go to the polls. After only 2 hours of work, several of the precincts reported hundreds of voters casting their ballots. In addition, 65 high school seniors have been conducting exit polling since 7 this morning in designated areas including precincts in Waukegan, Joliet, Aurora, Bridgeview, Melrose Park, Berwyn, and other areas of south, north, and west Chicago.

***ICIRR will send updates from the field throughout the day, you can check updates also in our website www.icirr.org <http://www.icirr.org/>

You can find pictures that you can download: http://picasaweb.google.com/icirr.org/EDayGOTVEfforts

Adriana Barboza is a Wellstone Action trainer working with ICIRR 

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