Dems reach out to community on eve of convention kickoff

Charlotte, N.C. — One day before its official kickoff, the Democratic National Convention hosted CarolinaFest, a Labor Day street party to showcase the Queen City.

As delegates and supporters from around the nation converged on Charlotte, the festival served as a marketplace for traditional Democratic causes.

"(CarolinaFest) is way to get out and touch people," said North Carolina delegate Joe Alston.

Among the entertainment, vendors and exhibits, hundreds of volunteers were also registering voters.

Charlotta Chung, a campaign volunteer for President Barack Obama, said she thinks inviting the community to participate in convention activities will get voters' attention.

"The fact that it's such an open and transparent convention, with community credentials being distributed and people actually being invited to participate, I think we're harnessing that energy and leveraging for a lot of good," Chung said.

During Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, the Democratic Party signed up about 25,000 volunteers during the national convention in Denver. In Charlotte, the party hopes to double that number with outreach events like CarolinaFest.

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@boney, 9% of Pennsylvania voters will be disenfranchised if Repubs get photo voter ID laws created there. That’s hundreds of thousands of people who will be denied voting rights.

And, this will Poll Tax disproportionately affects African Americans, Latino, poor, rural, old & others who often vote Democrat...for a non-existent problem...a problem that PA has never had a single case. Not one.

But, that’s all by design. That’s why Pennsylvania GOP House Leader Mike Turzai was able to say that Mitt will win the state because of this. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/16/pennsylvania-voter-id-law_n_1790844.html

Of course, there have been in-person voter fraud that creating new laws to impose Big Government on every U.S. citizen will prevent. Ten (10) cases...since 2000...in the entire United States...out of several hundred million votes. Yep. There’s your “justification” for all this time, taxpayer money, resources and disenfranchisement. Nice job, vote stealer.

JustOneGodLessThanU
September 4, 2012 4:30 p.m.

You did not need voter ID there, they just passed out the 40's without asking for ID, just like voting!

Protesters, there are not any protesters in Charlotte, everyone loves the democRATS and would not even think of protesting. And if they did, Charlotte has the protest area just South of Rock Hill, SC