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State's largest voter registration drive is today

Lynsay Clutter/Eyewitness News

Indianapolis - With just seven days left to register to vote, Indiana is holding the state's largest voter registration drive.

You can register to vote in two places today: Inside the Lafayette Square Mall, WTLC-FM and Hot 96.3 are set up to broadcast live from Center Court. The other drive will take place in Broad Ripple Park with Radio Now and Indy's Music Channel. Today's drives take place from 6 am - until 9 pm.  You can also pick up absentee applications at these locations today. (Indiana Voters - get voter registration details.)

Since the 1980s, Radio One stations in Indianapolis have been hosting drives. Last year, 2,500 people registered in those drives, and this year, they hope to break that number. Radio One stations in 15 cities across the country want to collectively register 50,000 people, making it the largest broadcasting drive in history.

With high interest in the election, now just five weeks away, Amos Brown says today's goal is to prepare Hoosiers to vote. 

"I will talk to people on the day before election day where they are finally engaged, they are ready to vote and they suddenly decide, they support a candidate or go against a candidate, and then suddenly realize, oh, they can't vote because they didn't take the time to register," said Brown.

You will need to make sure your address and name is up to date. Volunteers from both political parties will make sure registrations are filled out correctly.

So far in Indiana, about 637,000 people have registered or updated their information since the first of the year, with 333,000 people just since the May Primary. Record numbers are expected to vote at the polls this November.

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