The forms will be collected by the NUS and passed to local electoral registration officials.

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But he's spent countless hours pounding the pavement for local candidates and holding voter-registration drives in his hometown of Fort Collins, Colo.

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Scottish Labour's local government spokesperson Sarah Boyack supported the implementation of the Gould report recommendations and called on the minister to focus on promoting voter registration in the run up to the local government elections.

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Many of those who did vote muttered that they only did so for fear that local-government officials would not help them with future permits if they did not have the right stamp on their registration cards.

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