GREENVILLE On an unseasonably warm Martin Luther King Jr. Day, several dozen residents marched from the Washington County Courthouse to the Greenville City Hall to encourage their fellow residents to register to vote.

If youre going to march, do it for a purpose, march organizer Charles Brady said. I see people every year come out and march and forget why theyre marching. People just arent connecting the two. People are deliberately disenfranchising themselves.

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