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Email controversy not changing local Clinton campaign strategies

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Despite the most recent email review involving Hillary Clinton, local Democrats are making a big, last minute push for votes.
 
In Palm Beach County, volunteers are working to focus voters' attention on what they claim are the positive aspects of the Clinton campaign. They say they don't want the most recent development in the email scandal to ruin Clinton's shot at the White House.
 
Volunteers are canvassing over the phone and in-person, going door to door in many neighborhoods, trying to reach as many registered Democrats and Independents as they can before the election.
 
"We need every vote to be registered for Hillary and for the Democrats because it is so tight," said campaign volunteer Carol Moore.
 
Moore says after news on Friday of the FBI looking in to newly discovered emails, canvassers added some material.
 
"We had to add the point, if people ask, we have to respond," Moore said. "And if people ask in detail, we say this is not an investigation into Hillary at all, this is into another person. And we want to remind you that the issues are very much her policies and the Democratic policies that she can put in place over the next four years."
 
Moore says so far, she hasn't heard much negative feedback from voters about the emails. She claims they're more interested in other issues.
 
"When we ask them what motivates you to vote, it tends to be jobs, it tends to be immigration reform, it tends to be family leave," Moore said. "People do talk about having the first woman president and then lastly, another one that does come up is access to healthcare."
 
Volunteers at the Palm Beach County Clinton campaign office say there's also a big push to get absentee voters to mail in their ballots in the next few days.