Florida voter drive seeks to motivate state's youth vote

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Florida voter drive seeks to motivate state's youth vote

By Barbara Liston ORLANDO (Reuters) - The Dream Defenders, a student-led group that garnered national attention for occupying the Florida governor's office in 2013 to protest the state's self-defense law, kicked off a campaign on Tuesday to get younger voters to the polls in November. The group of about 300 members is working in nine chapters in Florida counties which are home to the largest state universities. Susan MacManus, a professor at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa and a veteran Florida political analyst, called the move "very smart." Women, minority and young voter groups all intersect on college campuses, MacManus said, and their unexpectedly large turnout in Florida in 2012 is credited by many analysts with President Barack Obama winning the state.

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