StudentVote.org is a one-stop online resource for students to vote! Our easy to use website provides all the basics to help students register to vote, find their polling location, get their friends involved, and more! In addition to registering, students get all the relevant information they need – knowing what’s on the ballot, what form of ID they may need, how they can vote absentee, and answers to other frequently asked questions.
Since 2008, the Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project has used online voter registration, online organizing, and virtual tools to help make sure we can reach the most young people possible. In that time, 150,000 students have used the tool to register to vote. StudentVote.org is sponsored by the Student PIRGs and our student government association allies around the country.
In the 2020 and 2022 elections, more than a million students used the website to register to vote, check their polling location, pledge to vote and get their friends involved. We partnered with more than 50 campus partners who promoted the tool to help students vote.
How StudentVote Tool Helps Colleges and Groups Promote Voting
- It works. Both the Student PIRGs and Rock the Vote have been using the same technology for fifteen years and over 7 million people have completed a voter registration form without difficulty. We’ve found that more than 2/3 of people who complete the online registration form end up on the voting rolls.
- It is easy. For states with online voter registration, StudentVote links directly to the Secretary of State office and helps them complete the form. For all other states, students can use the StudentVote tool to complete a voter registration form online. They are then given a PDF of their completed form to print out and mail in. A copy of their form is also emailed to them so that they can print it out later if they prefer.
- Email reminders increase the likelihood of registering. Students get weekly email reminders until they click a button telling us they mailed in the form. Our experiments have proven this increases the mail-in rate. If they register directly online, they will get a couple of friendly reminders helping them make a plan to cast their ballot before election day.
- Tell-a-friend feature creates a multiplier effect. Registrants get the option to pass the tool onto a friend. Students are more likely to register and vote when asked by a friend. Using the tool creates a multiplier effect that increases your campus registration rates.
- A powerful tool for increasing voter turnout. Because the tool compiles contact information of students who register, it enables campuses to follow up with person-to-person voting reminders before Election Day through phone calls, canvassing and text messaging. Over a decade of research by social scientists has conclusively found that these techniques increase youth voter turnout. The tool does not compile private contact information, such as drivers’ license numbers, and only compiles information in states where legally permitted.
- It’s free!!! Partnering with our friends at Rock the Vote, we are excited to work with groups, organizations, and campuses who are dedicated to helping register new voters with this free tool.
- It’s secure. Personal information collected through the tool is held on a secure server.
Sensitive information is used to populate the voter registration form, and is immediately discarded. Non Sensitive data is available to partners through our secure dashboard.
Rock the Vote is committed to preserving an applicant’s privacy; and, as stated in their security and privacy statements, all personal identifying data and other unique identifiers submitted in the process of registering to vote are used to produce the voter registration form for the user to send to his/her local or state election officials. If a state-issued identification number or Social Security number is provided, it is used solely for the production of a voter registration form. - You can register to vote in over 13 languages including Spanish.
How StudentVote Tool Helps Colleges and Groups Promote Voting
Frequently Asked Questions
Using StudentVote.org for your campus or organization
Our partners have used the tool in a variety of ways to promote student participation in elections:
- Send an all campus email with StudentVote.org
- Embed and link StudentVote.org on campus or group websites.
- Including it as a part of class registration
- Promote during new student orientation
- Create QR codes to post on bulletin boards
StudentVote.org can be linked or embedded and customized to fit the layout and color scheme of your site or page. Here is an example of StudentVote.org embedded on the Stanford University website
Partners
- Campus Vote Project
- Duke University
- Grand Rapids Community College
- Lasell University
- Miami Dade College
- Michigan State University
- National Wildlife Federation
- Rutgers Newark
- Stanford Votes
- SUNY Oswego
- UMass Dartmouth
- University of Missouri – Kansas City
- University of North Florida
About Us
The New Voters Project is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization with 4945(f) status, has run peer-to-peer young voter registration and mobilization drives to turn out the youth vote on college campuses for almost 50 years. Over the last 30 years we have helped to register over 2 million young voters. We believe that the full participation of young people in the political process is essential to a truly representative, vibrant democracy. Our goal is to engage as many students as possible in each and every election cycle in order that our generation be represented in the political process, regardless of ideology or political affiliation. The New Voter’s Project does not endorse, either explicitly or implicitly, a political candidate or political party for elected office.
For any questions about StudentVote.org you can contact Manny Rin, New Voters Project Director ([email protected])