The Future of American Democracy
Despite significant gains in voter turnout over the last decade, young people still lag behind in terms of representation within the American electorate, and are among the populations most vulnerable to voting rights rollbacks.
The fundamental fact of our electoral process is that one cannot vote if one is not registered. The first step in ensuring that young people cease to be underrepresented in the electorate is to institutionalize access to voter registration.
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Project Vote Statement on North Carolina Voter Suppression Bill
Today, the Rules Committee of the North Carolina Senate is considering a new version of HB 589, an omnibus election... Read more
Project Vote Statement on North Carolina Voter Suppression Bill
"North Carolina’s senate leadership has taken a bad bill and made it immeasurably worse…" Read more
Black Voter Turnout Increased in 2012
A new report today from the Associated Press shows that the 2012 national election was historic due to changes in... Read more
Voter Turnout Dropped Among Young Californians in 2012
More than two million voting eligible Californians between the ages of 18 to 24 failed to vote in the 2012... Read more
State Lawmakers Propose to Start Engaging Voters in High School
Voter preregistration programs that allow citizens as young as the age of 16 to preregister to vote provide a great... Read more
Indiana Lawmaker Proposes to Bar Out-of-State Students from Voting
UPDATE: On Thursday, February 28 the House Committee on Elections and Apportionment amended HB 1311 removing the provision addressing nonresident... Read more
Student: We Must Break Down the Barriers to Voting
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, those elected by the votes of millions of Americans—the president and vice president—were... Read more
Youth Voter Participation is Rising
Young people are historically less likely to vote than the general electorate. Recent elections, however, have shown a remarkable increase... Read more
Young Americans Turned Apathetic By Washington Squabbling, Bad Economy
In a phenomenon that threatens to repeat itself this fall, many discontented young people sat out the 2010 midterm elections… Read more
Raise Your Voice, Register to Vote
Across the country, volunteers and nonpartisan organizations are spreading the word about the ticket to voting: voter registration. As many... Read more