Mi Familia Vota launches grass-roots Latino vote campaign

Door-to-door Latino vote effort on Saturday
FERNANDA ECHÁVARRI, Tucson Citizen

A civic-participation group will talk to Latinos on Saturday about the importance of voting in the presidential elections.
Members of Mi Familia Vota, or My Family Votes, will knock on doors of Latinos and explain how they can vote from their homes in November's elections, a news release said.

They will meet at 9 a.m. at 203 W. Cushing St. near the Tucson Convention Center.

Mi Familia Vota is looking for volunteers to help organizers talk to voters on Saturday, a lead organizer said.

"We'll have coffee and doughnuts at the meeting point and hopefully (knock on) 300 doors in different precincts," Amy McQuillen said.

She said volunteers will provide voters with forms to register for mail-in ballots.

"In the future we want to have voter registration parties at the office where we can explain in a lot more detail how to register," McQuillen said.

Mi Familia Vota works with labor unions, churches and other organizations to help immigrants in Arizona and Colorado become United States citizens and register to vote.