Report: Thousands didn't register to vote in Ferguson since August after all [View all]

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http://www.vox.com/2014/10/3/6900373/ferguson-voters-are-registering-in-record-numbers




Update: USA Today's Yamiche Alcindor on October 7 reported that the local director of elections had miscalculated the number of Ferguson residents who signed up to vote following the August 9 shooting of Michael Brown. The actual number is 128, not 3,287



Following the Brown shooting, many of Ferguson's residents protested nightly, and part of their concern was that their local government didn't represent the city's black community. Although 67 percent of Ferguson's population is black, the mayor and police chief are white, one of six council members is black, and no one on the local board of elections is black.