Election 2016

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First-Time Voters Hold Demonstration To Encourage Civic Engagement

KMUW | By Hugo Phan,

Deborah Shaar

Published October 27, 2016 at 5:00 AM CDT

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Dozens of Wichita high school students and young adults are trying to get people engaged in the election process this year.

They staged a large gathering called a “Vote Mob” at the Sedgwick County Courthouse on Tuesday. KMUW’s Abigail Beckman caught up with some first-time voters.

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Hugo Phan

Hugo Phan is a Digital News Reporter at KMUW, and founding member of the KMUW Movie Club. After years of being a loyal listener, he signed up to be a KMUW volunteer and joined the station's college student group before becoming a digital assistant in 2013.

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Deborah Shaar

Deborah joined the news team at KMUW in September 2014 as a news reporter. She spent more than a dozen years working in news at both public and commercial radio and television stations in Ohio, West Virginia and Detroit, Michigan. Before relocating to Wichita in 2013, Deborah taught news and broadcasting classes at Tarrant County College in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area.

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