Taj Simmons is a multimedia journalist who joined WRTV in August 2023.
INDIANAPOLIS — Election Day is coming soon, but Indiana's deadline to register to vote is a month before the polls close. A group of teenagers took it upon themselves to remind the neighborhood around their school.KIIP Indy Legacy High School students spent Wednesday morning knocking on doors in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood near Douglass Park.Indiana's voter registration deadline is Oct. 7 and early voting starts the next day on Oct. 8.
'It is exciting, this is my Christmas,' said Marion County Clerk Kate Sweeney Bell. 'This machine allows us to address the needs of the voters and get the ballot to them lickety split.'Sweeney Bell is hopeful for more voter turnout in Indiana following a report that the Hoosier State ranked near the bottom in voter participation.'In the primary, we had under 13 percent turnout.,' Sweeney Bell said. 'That's not alright, and I know Indianapolis can do better.
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