STUDENT P I RGS | 1 2 institutionalizing voter engagement NCPIRG at UNC – Chapel Hill uses over 6,000 petitions from multiple semesters to convince the Department of Housing to offer voter registration at every mandatory hall meeting in the residence halls, impacting nearly 10,000 students. Rutgers students work with campus stakeholders to pass a campus-wide voter registration and civic engagement plan that the President of the university endorses! Florida PIRG students at Eckerd College create the Eckerd Vote Coalition which successfully campaigns for voter registration at freshman orientation. boots on the ground PIRG students working with the New Voters Project register thousands of voters for the 2017 off-year elections and the 2018 primaries across the country. 13 PIRG campuses in 6 states register 500 students to vote on National Voter Registration Day! advocacy & legislation WASHPIRG phonebanks and lobbies successfully for automatic voter registration, preregistration, and same day registration in Washington! MaryPIRG students delivers petitions on their annual Lobby Day in Annapolis and successfully advocates for Election Day Registration and a ballot measure for same day registration in Maryland. CENTER: April Nicklaus, rising senior at Rutgers, speaks in support of the Help Students Vote Act with coalition partners, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, and Senator Cory Booker.
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