The Dispatch wrote New citizens, new voters
Friday, September 19, 2008
By Sherri Williams
300 people became citizens yesterday at a ceremony at Veterans Memorial. Many of the new Americans, ranging in age from 18 to 79 and hailing from 73 countries, completed voter-registration forms afterward.
More than 2,900 people have been naturalized in Columbus since January. U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson, one of three judges at the ceremony, told the new citizens: “Exercise your right to vote and engage others. Many lives have been lost fighting to preserve this precious right of citizenship.”
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