New Voters Project This year CALPIRG Students has been working with California Student Vote Project, the Secretary of State’s Office, the UC Student Association, and student governments across the state to help register and mobilize students to vote and participate in our democracy. The full participation of young people in the political process is essential to a truly representative, vibrant democracy. Young people are now the largest and most diverse group of potential voters in the country and can make a huge impact when we vote! We know the first step in helping turn out the voter is making the process easier and more accessible for first time voters. In January of 2019 we helped introduce SB 72 (Umberg) – a bill that will increase funding for sameday voter registration sites. CALPIRG Students went to the capitol to testify in favor of this bill, and gathered over 300 signatures from student organization leaders from the UCs in favor of expanding same-day voter registration. And just as school was starting, the bill passed! Quickly we were able to help UCLA make plans for an on-campus vote center that would allow same-day voter registration, and UC Irvine also took the step in adopting an on-campus vote center! In January of 2020 we started to build coalitions across the state for the primary and general elections. Through the support of administrators and student government leaders we were able to send all-campus emails to the student body with tools to register to vote online at castudentvote.org at UC Davis, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, UCLA, and UC Riverside. Through that action alone over 1,000 students registered to vote using the online tool.
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