PHOENIX: When a brass band, mariachi musicians and a folk dancer wearing a dress embroidered TU VOTO CUENTA — “your vote counts” — paraded through her West Phoenix neighborhood, Marizol Moreno, who had never before voted in a presidential election, came outside in her pajamas to watch.
Moreno, who was born in California, had never been interested in politics, feeling both parties worked for people wealthier than her family. “I feel like my vote won’t count,” she said. But after her husband, father and several family members got coronavirus, she thought she needed to get more involved.
Moreno, enthused by the voter outreach parade, planned to vote at her daughter’s school on Tuesday, probably for Joe Biden, because she wants a change.
People like Moreno are exactly whom community organizers were trying to reach in the election’s final stretch in Maricopa County, which…