North Carolina teen registers people to vote in an unexpected place: the line at Popeyes

David Ledbetter went down to a Popeyes in Charlotte, North Carolina, hoping that voting would be as popular with customers as the fast food restaurant's new chicken sandwich.

Ledbetter, a 17-year-old high school senior, decided over the weekend that he would capitalize on the buzz surrounding the sandwich, and stand outside the building with voter registration forms. He told WKYC he wants to do something about the "lack of young people politically involved," and that's what pushed him to do a registration drive.

By the time he was done, Ledbetter had registered 16 new voters. "I believe that it is our duty to vote as American citizens and it would be wrong not to exercise our political voice," he said. Catherine Garcia

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