PARKS AND VOLUNTEERS REGISTER MORE THAN 400 ON DEADLINE DAY IN CRENSHAW AREA

LOS ANGELES (Oct 20) -- On voter registration deadline Oct 20, Councilman Bernard Parks and community volunteers registered more than 400 people from 18 to 97 years old to vote in the Crenshaw area during a final push before the midnight cutoff.   Volunteers hit the streets at 5AM and worked to 10PM registering voters. 

Also, Parks kicked off the morning at his campaign headquarters, 3734 Crenshaw Boulevard by clarifying myths about voter criteria -- including for former parolees and prisoners.  He said, “It’s important to clarify the myths that have sometimes been created to keep people away from the polls,” said Parks.  “There are only three circumstances that could legally prohibit people from voting.”

Parks also advised that voters who cannot find their names on the voter roster on election day November 4, 2008 when they show up to their respective polling places, can vote by provisional ballot.  Also, he points out that people on probation can vote despite an all-to-common belief that they cannot.  “It’s long been assumed that people who’ve been convicted of a crime cannot vote. That’s not necessarily so,” Parks said.