STUDENT P I RGS | 1 1 civic engagement & the youth vote Together young people have the power to elect the next generation of leaders who will fight for our shared vision of the future, but only if we vote. We want every college student in the country to not just vote, but become a voter. In Massachusetts, New Jersey, and North Carolina, our New Voters Project helped thousands of students get to the polls in the 2017 elections. Our New Voters Project is America’s oldest and largest on-the-ground nonpartisan youth voter mobilization program. Since 1984, the New Voters Project has helped register 1.9 million young voters and make more than 2.2 million personalized GOTV contacts. On all of our campuses, whether they had an election or not, we worked to get campuses the data they need to make a effective campus engagement plans through the National Study of Learning Voting and Engagement, build broad coalitions from every part of the campus community to institutionalize democratic education, and ultimately create a culture of civic engagement. In addition, our chapters worked to pass laws to make access to the ballot box easier for students on the state level.
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