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Case: Please watch the following video and then respond to the discussion post by answering at least one of the questions below. Your answers should demonstrate an understanding of the topic. All answers must be submitted using complete sentences and showing the proper conventions of grammar (capitalization, punctuation, correct spelling).
This Jacksonville, FL local news report about early voting activities during the 2020 election looks at how one community organized events to get residents to the polls as part of a broad national effort to encourage early in-person voting.
Question 1: What events did this Jacksonville community arrange in order to get residents to participate in early in-person voting during the 2020 election?
Question 2: How did these events attempt to overcome the institutional and personal costs of voting?
Question 3: Would people be motivated to participate in get-out-the-vote events like those depicted here because of feelings of civic responsibility? Efficacy? To influence outcomes?
Question 4: What influence do you believe celebrities like Common might have in motivating people to vote?
Question 5: Why does event organizer Siottis Jackson (at 0:39 in the video) connect getting people to vote with attaining better voting rights, education, and health care?
Question 6: What is the significance of the fact that these local get-out-the-vote events were part of a national get-out-the-vote campaign?