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Why Primary Turnout Matters For Baltimore

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Kyle Leslie, Matt Purdy
Credit Kyle Leslie, Matt Purdy / WYPR

WYPR's Fraser Smith and Roberto Alejandro of the Afro talk about efforts to increase voter turnoutin the June 24th primary, and who would benefit if the vast majority of voters stay home.

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Fraser Smith has been in the news business for over 30 years. He began his reportorial career with the Jersey Journal, a daily New Jersey newspaper and then moved on to the Providence Journal in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1969 Fraser won a prestigious American Political Science Association Public Affairs Fellowship, which enabled him to devote a year to graduate study at Yale University. In 1977, Fraser was hired away by The Baltimore Sun where in 1981, he moved to the newspaper's Washington bureau to focus on policy problems and their everyday effect on Marylanders. In 1983, he became the Sun's chief political reporter.