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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NY Times Examines More Midterm Election Myths
New York Times writer, Michael Cooper examines the myths that plague midterm election analyses, particularly regarding voter’s views on “Big... Read more
WaPo:’Who Will Vote’ Today? Youth?
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne writes on the “unprecedented gap between the entire potential electorate and those who intend to... Read more
Voter Groups Go to Court to Fight for Voting Rights of High School Students in New Jersey
TRENTON–The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, Project Vote, and the Fair Elections Legal Network submitted a brief seeking... Read more
Voter Groups Go to Court to Fight for Voting Rights of Private, Charter, and Public School Students
he American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, Project Vote and the Fair Elections Legal Network today submitted a brief seeking to ensure that the Department of Education fulfill a twenty-five-year old mandate to protect the voting rights of private, charter, and public school students, which the DOE has thus-far failed to meet. Read more
Model Testimony: Preregistration
This document provides a template for advocates, citizens, and other interested parties to write testimony in support of legislation to permit 16-and 17-year-old citizens to preregister to vote. Read more
Building Ranks of Young Voters, and Poll Workers
A study, released last month by Project Vote, found that citizens under age 30 made up 21 percent of the adult citizen population in 2008, but only 17 percent of the voters. Read more
Hanging on to the youth vote
The enthusiasm of the 2008 presidential election is lagging on a larger scale in 2010, especially for youth voters, according to Project Vote. Read more
Young Voter Asks Candidates and Media to “Help Us Help You”
According to Project Vote’s recent poll, only 79.1 percent of voters under the age of 30 plan to vote in... Read more
Registering College-Age Voters: When a “Good Faith Effort” isn’t Good Enough
Last week, the Project Vote blog discussed the Higher Education Act, which requires that colleges and universities make a “good... Read more
Little Known Law Could Boost Youth Voter Registration Before Election, If Action Taken Now
The nation is experiencing one of the greatest mobilization efforts ever seen for a midterm election. And young voters, as... Read more