Bring Our Student Vote Training to Your Campus
It may not seem like it, but the 2014 elections are right around the corner. It's time to start planning your fall election projects now.
Mobilizing students to vote is one of the best ways that you can strengthen the student voice. If college students want their voices heard by elected officials, they need to turn out at the polls.
That's why we've partnered with the Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project to provide the nation’s premier nonpartisan training on how to run effective campus voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives. The New Voters Project is the nation’s leading nonpartisan young voter mobilization program. Since 1983, they have helped to register more than 1.2 million young voters and make more than a million personalized get-out-the-vote contacts.Read more
How To: Launching a Student Vote Coalition
The 2014 elections may seem far away, but now is the time to start planning.
In most states, the voter registration deadlines are early in the fall semester, so you should lay the groundwork this spring. By doing so, you can hit the ground running when classes start and organize the biggest possible voter registration and get-out-the-vote drive on your campus.
The first big step in planning for election season is to build a campus-wide coalition. Having a broad Student Vote coalition lets you run the biggest possible voter registration drive by bringing together groups with a range of resources.Read more
Organizing Tips: Get-Out-The-Vote Drives
Voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives are popular projects for student governments. Here are a few tried and true tactics for effectively getting out the student vote.
The most effective way to increase voter turnout is by contacting students individually to remind them to vote. There are lots of ways to do this.Read more
Organizing Tips: Building a Student Vote Coalition
One of the best ways to get decision-makers to pay attention to students is to make sure that students get to the polls and vote during elections.
If you want to run a big voter registration and get-out-the-vote project, building a campus-wide coalition is key to your success. Having a broad Student Vote coalition lets you run the biggest possible voter registration drive by bringing together groups with a range of resources.Read more