Maryland Attorney General candidate Tom Perez and Montgomery County Council candidate Valerie Ervin met with local minority and church leaders Monday to discuss ways to encourage more than 227,000 county minority residents to register to vote in a plan the Democratic pair are touting as “Empower Summer.”

Parts of Montgomery County are already “majority minority,” meaning that there are more combined minority residents than the Caucasian population, said Perez, who is of Latino heritage.