Voter registration drive focuses on students

National Voter Registration Day was September 27, and the last chance to register to vote in the upcoming election is October 11. It’s possible the box on the DMV form to register as a voter was not clicked, either by the person registering or by DMV staff. Indiana’s turnout in November 2014 – a non-presidential election year – was 30 percent, the worst in the nation.

Are you registered to vote? In addition, applications are also distributed by more than 80 governmental agencies in San Bernardino County.

Electoral reform group Bersih has reiterated the need for the Election Commission (EC) to introduce automatic voter registration.

Greene told the 13 students in her Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate psychology class who filled out voter registration forms Tuesday that they should give themselves a round of applause.

Some students didn’t see the importance in voting.

“I encourage everyone to take advantage of their voting privileges”, Waggener said.

Lindsay Popowski, a 17-year-old senior who worked on the drive, said another advantage of a school-based registration drive is that it would broaden the demographics of who registered to vote by getting students whose parents are nonvoters registered. “Although an analysis of the full impact of automatic registration will have to wait until after the election, it is becoming more and more clear: OR is the Usain Bolt of voter registration”.

“We thought we had a unique ability and responsibility to show people this reminder that they should be checking their registration so they can participate in the election”, Facebook’s director of government outreach, Katie Harbath said in a USA TODAY article. And in Congress, it’s vital that we demand a vote on the Democracy Restoration Act, which would restore federal voting rights to disenfranchised Americans who have been released from prison.

“Then we do transfers because people will be moving from one constituency to the other, from one polling station of their previous registration to a new polling station”.

“Because I believe in what this country stands in and was founded on”, Montoya said.

“You’re helping them exercise their most basic rights as citizens”, said Goldenstein.