Happy Election Day! Across the country, young people are making their voices heard and showing up to the polls in huge numbers compared to the 2016 election. I’m so incredibly proud of the work our team has done over the last eight months building a student-powered campaign to make sure that America’s largest generation was heard at the ballot box.
It’s Election Week! The Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project is using the last two days to keep up the unprecedented momentum we’re seeing in youth turnout, with more than 4,500 hours of calling and texting scheduled from our student-led team around the country. I’m back to share an update on our work and an invite to join online Get out the Vote events we’re hosting this week.
In the past two week, the Student PIRGs New Voters Project, one of the country’s oldest and largest youth-led voter mobilization efforts, has reached more than 750,000 young people by organizing virtual Phone-a-thon events as part of a coordinated effort to help register and turn out students.
The Student PIRGs New Voters Project, one of the country’s oldest and largest youth-led voter mobilization efforts, has been working in 17 states to register and mobilize students to vote.
Between Saturday and Election Day, the Student PIRGs New Voters Project will host get-out-the-vote virtual events with hundreds of volunteers.
DENVER — The Student PIRGs New Voters Project joined more than 2,500 partners across the country on Saturday to celebrate National Vote Early Day, the first civic holiday to help Americans take advantage of their options to vote early in their state. Over 300 students called and texted thousands of their peers to help them make plans to vote. Dozens of student organizations, community groups, and faculty joined the massive outreach effort. Supporting first time voters navigate the process in their state is critical in helping ensure they turn out.
To maintain engagement between students and faculty in these difficult times, the Student PIRGs New Voters Project, one of the country’s oldest and largest youth-led voter mobilization efforts, and the Scholars Strategy Network (SSN), a network of more than 1,500 university researchers, have brought together thousands of students and faculty to ensure that as many student body members as possible register as voters, make plans to vote, and, ultimately, cast their ballots.
There are only 11 days left until the election, and I’m back with another update on how the Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project is pulling out all the stops to make sure young people are registered and have a plan to vote.
With less than two weeks left until Election Day, the Student PIRGs and the Andrew Goodman Foundation have put together a series quick videos on how student organizations, faculty, and campus administrators can get their campuses ready for the 2020 Elections and make sure that their students on join the more than 2.5 MILLION young people that have voted already.
Nationwide — The NAACP, the nation’s largest and most highly recognized civil rights organization, and the Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project, one of the country’s oldest and largest youth-led voter mobilization efforts, announced the last push of their youth get out the vote campaign Monday in Florida. In addition to working together, the Student PIRGs are providing the NAACP a grant to help expand the scope of the project during this crucial election.
We’re in the home stretch of this election—only 20 days left!—and young people are fired up. The nonpartisan Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project continues to do all we can to make sure young people are registered to vote and have a plan to get their ballot cast. Last week was quite the week, with voter registration deadlines in six of our states. I wanted to send a quick note on how our voter registration pushes went — read below for highlights from the week.