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Democrats Take to the Streets for Voters : Elections: Volunteers target Victory and Sepulveda boulevards to register hard-to-reach constituents in a last push before Monday’s deadline.

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On the last weekend to register to vote before the Nov. 3 election, San Fernando Valley Democrats walked two major streets Saturday urging people to stop at street-corner registration booths and sign up to cast ballots.

Several hundred volunteers crisscrossed the Valley, covering a 16-mile stretch of Victory Boulevard from Buena Vista Street in Burbank to Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Woodland Hills and a 10-mile stretch of Sepulveda Boulevard from Rinaldi Street in Mission Hills to Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks.

Sepulveda and Victory were targeted for the drive because residents along those streets are less likely to be registered to vote, said Karen Harris, a volunteer at Democratic Campaign ’92 headquarters in Van Nuys. “They’re not as likely to be reached by registration booths set up outside fashion malls,” she said.

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Voter registration tables were set up at major intersections. The volunteers, who included candidates, local officials and celebrities, walked in one-mile relays. The walk ended at Woodley Park in Van Nuys, where Roger Clinton, brother of Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton, spoke during a rally and picnic.

The Van Nuys Democratic office, one of three in the San Fernando Valley, has registered about 5,000 people to vote in the three weeks since it opened, Harris said.

In Val Verde, the Rainbow Caucus, a newly formed committee of the Democratic Club of the Santa Clarita Valley, walked door-to-door Saturday as part of an effort to register under-represented citizens. The committee also is making registration forms and voter-information forms written in Spanish available today at Tres Sierras Market in Santa Clarita. Monday is the deadline to register to vote in the November election.

Republicans in the San Fernando Valley had no special voter-registration activities planned over the weekend.

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