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In 1969, Frank Chin started studying voter registration lists. A community activist, he had been appointed by Boston Mayor Kevin White to co-chair a grievance committee to address problems in Boston neighborhoods, and he wanted to see how many of Boston’s Chinese residents were able to vote. The numbers were not encouraging. “I looked at all the voter lists and there were only 300 registered Chinese voters,” Chin told the Boston Globe in 2007. Determined to change this, he and […]