Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 9/21/16. Chantelle Roberson, left, and Wade Hinton brainstorm on ways to increase voter participation throughout the city while at the Camp House on Wednesday, September 21, 2016. Voter registration rally
› Where: Olivet Baptist Church, 740 E. M.L. King Blvd.› When: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. today.› More info: www.govotecha.weebly.com› Upcoming rallies are scheduled Oct. 1 at Westside Baptist Church and Oct. 9 at Second Missionary Baptist Church.
Expressions of hopelessness and apathy within inner city communities have moved two local attorneys to organize a grassroots effort to register voters and get them to the polls.
Chantelle Roberson, associate general counsel at BlueCross BlueShield, said she had talked to young people who believed nobody cared about them and that their vote didn’t matter.
She told the young voters that their vote was their voice.
“Voting allows people the opportunity to use their voice to speak in a way decision-makers understand,” she said.